Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

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Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against â€œableistâ€ discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.

Enforcing NormalcyÂ surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term â€œnormalâ€ as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation.

Enforcing NormalcyÂ redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Lennard J. Davis
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781784780005
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
NumberOfPages	228
PublicationDate	2014-08-19
Publisher	Verso
ReleaseDate	2014-08-19
Studio	Verso

Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

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