03863nam 22007094a 450 991045920800332120200520144314.01-282-67932-597866126793220-226-76730-210.7208/9780226767307(CKB)2670000000033484(EBL)557555(OCoLC)648761349(SSID)ssj0000415279(PQKBManifestationID)11263180(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415279(PQKBWorkID)10411023(PQKB)10491917(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122034(MiAaPQ)EBC557555(DE-B1597)524045(OCoLC)781331404(DE-B1597)9780226767307(Au-PeEL)EBL557555(CaPaEBR)ebr10407118(CaONFJC)MIL267932(EXLCZ)99267000000003348420050720d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCultural locations of disability[electronic resource] /Sharon L. Snyder and David T. MitchellChicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-76731-0 0-226-76732-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Cultural Locations of Disability -- Part I. Dis-locations of Culture -- Part II. Echoes of Eugenics -- Part III. Institutionalizing Disability Studies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexIn Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. 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. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in 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 to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.Sociology of disabilityPeople with disabilitiesSocial conditionsPeople with disabilitiesGovernment policyPeople with disabilities in motion picturesElectronic books.Sociology of disability.People with disabilitiesSocial conditions.People with disabilitiesGovernment policy.People with disabilities in motion pictures.305.9/08Snyder Sharon L.1963-964668Mitchell David T.1962-964669MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459208003321Cultural locations of disability2188656UNINA