Disability/postmodernity : embodying disability theory / edited by Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword / Iris Marion Young -- Mapping the terrain / Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare -- A journey around the social model / Carol Thomas and Mairian Corker -- On the subject of impairment / Shelley Tremain -- A postmodern disorder : moral encounters with molecular models of disability / Jackie Leach Scully -- Bodies together : touch, ethics and disability / Janet Price and Magrit Shildrick -- The body as embodiment : an investigation of the body by Merleau-Ponty / Miho Iwakuma -- Disability in the Indian context : post-colonial perspectives / Anita Ghai -- Cultural maps : which way to disability? / Tanya Titchkosky -- Defusing the adverse context of disability and desirability as a practice of the self for men with cerebral palsy / Russell P. Shuttleworth -- Changing the subject : postmodernity and people with 'learning difficulties' / Dan Goodley and Mark Rapley -- Madness, distress and postmodernity : putting the record straight / Anne Wilson and Peter Beresford -- Countering stereotypes of disability : disabled children and resistance / John Davis and Nick Watson -- Estranged-familiarity / Rod Michalko -- Image politics without the real : simulacra, dandyism and disability fashion / Petra Kuppers -- De-gene-erates, replicants and other aliens : (re)defining disability in futuristic film / Johnson Cheu -- Naming and marrating disability in Japan / James Valentine -- The crooked timber of humanity : disability, ideology and the aesthetic / Anita Silvers