TY - BOOK AU - Corker,Mairian AU - Shakespeare,Tom TI - Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory SN - 0826450555 AV - HV1568.2 .D59 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Sociology of disability KW - Disability studies KW - Postmodernism N1 - 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 ER -