Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness

Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human.

List of contents

List of Figures; Part 1 Foundations; 1. Legitimate and Offending Bodies; 2. Bedrock Constructs; 3. Looking Back; Part 2 Violations; 4. The Offensive Scope; 5. The Tool Kit; 6. The Language of Violation; 7. The Visual Violator; 8. Spaces and Places; Part 3 Responses; 9. Revising the Illegitimate; 10. Reinvention; 11. Denial; Part 4 Rethinking Humanness; 12. Negotiating Humanness; 13. Expansion and Commencement; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Elizabeth DePoy is a professor at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, the School of Social Work and cooperating faculty in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine. Within Disability Studies her teaching and scholarship focus on methods of inquiry and progressive analysis of disability.

Stephen Gilson is professor and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies program in the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies and professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maine. His primary scholarship analyzes the role of design and aesthetics in creating disability as a human category.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Depoy, Elizabeth Gilson Depoy, DePoy Elizabeth, Stephen French Gilson, Gilson Stephen French
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781839980459
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-045-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; PHILOSOPHY / Social, DESIGN / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, social and political philosophy, Disability: social aspects, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, philosophy; social science