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Informationen zum Autor Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell are faculty in the Department of Disability and Human Development and the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Together they have made four documentary films! authored three books! and led seminars in disability as a matter of pedagogy! politics! culture! and history. Klappentext In "Cultural Locations of Disability," Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. Snyder and Mitchell argue that the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental in charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. Zusammenfassung Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. The author reveals cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy.
