{"product_id":"enforcing-normalcy-by-lennard-j-davis","title":"Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard J Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnforcing Normalcy by Lennard J Davis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e challenge to expand our thinking about disability and oppression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnforcing Normalcy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 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 emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonised 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 conceptualising 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.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnforcing Normalcy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct Specifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLennard J.Davis\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eVerso\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781859840078\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e203 pages\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e15cm x 22.6cm x 1.1cm\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShop more from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mostyn.org\/collections\/macmillan\" title=\"Shop more from Macmillan Books for sale online at Mostyn\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMacmillan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555735675254,"sku":"9781859840078","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/9028\/1911\/products\/EnforcingNormalcy.jpg?v=1664964473","url":"https:\/\/shop.mostyn.org\/products\/enforcing-normalcy-by-lennard-j-davis","provider":"MOSTYN ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}