Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

by Lennard J. Davis

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In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term "normal" as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1859840078

ISBN13:9781859840078

Release Date:December 1995

Publisher:Verso

Length:228 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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