{"product_id":"enforcing-normalcy-disability-deafness-and-the-body-9781859840078","title":"Enforcing Normalcy: Disability  Deafness  and the Body","description":"\u003cp\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.  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 emergence of discourses about the nation  Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized 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 conceptualizing 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.  Enforcing Normalcy 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\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67970638086197,"sku":"ByrdShop_1859840078","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781859840078.jpg?v=1794592577","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/enforcing-normalcy-disability-deafness-and-the-body-9781859840078","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}