Rethinking Physical and Cognitive Differences
Understanding Disability
Disabilities have been traditionally treated as conditions in need of medical intervention and correction. Rarely has disability been approached as a constructed category forwarded by social institutions seeking to legislate the slippery line that exists between normative biologies and deviant bodies. Michigan Publishing advances ongoing scholarly efforts to conceive of a more humane constellation of narratives about physical and cognitive difference as well as striving to make its publications as accessible as possible to disabled readers. Our latest Disability Studies catalog is now available online.
Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities
About the Prize
The Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities is awarded in memory of disability studies pioneer Tobin Siebers, Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of many influential books and articles in the field of Disability Studies. The prize is awarded yearly for the best book-length manuscript on a topic of pressing urgency in the field. Winners receive a cash prize, a book contract from the University of Michigan Press, and an event opportunity.
New from "Corporealities"
Definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, bodily integrity, individuality, citizenship, and morality—all terms that define the essence of what it means to be human. Rarely has disability been approached as a constructed category forwarded by social institutions seeking to legislate the slippery line that exists between normative biologies and deviant bodies. Subtitled "Discourses of Disability" this University of Michigan Press book series identifies the social phantasms that have been projected upon disabled subjects in history and theorizes the shifting coordinates of disabled identities.
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature
This book by Jeremy Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies. It argues that the construction of ability arises through a process of exclusion and forgetting, in which the depiction of sensory information and epistemological judgment subtly (or sometimes un-subtly) elide the fact of embodied subjectivity.
Embodied Archive Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production
Weaving between the historical context of Mexico’s post-revolutionary period and our present-day world, this title by Susan Antebi approaches literary and archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns; projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts.
Beholding Disability in Renaissance England
Uncovers crucial counterdiscourses circulating in the English Renaissance that opposed cultural fantasies of ability and had a keen sensibility toward non-normative embodiments. Hobgood reads impairments as varied as epilepsy, stuttering, disfigurement, deafness, chronic pain, blindness, and castration in order to understand not just powerful fictions of ability present during the Renaissance but also the somewhat paradoxical, surprising ways these ableist ideals provided creative fodder for many Renaissance writers and thinkers.
More Disability Studies Titles
Browse a highlighted selection of our Disability Studies list for more excellent titles exploring various aspects of disability, including disability in history, higher education, and the arts; the experience, politics, and philosophy of disability; and the legacy of war.
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