Huff, Joyce L.
(ed.)
Holmes, Martha Stoddart
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 224 págs. 16.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 17-05-2023
EAN: 9781350029071
ISBN: 978-1-350-02907-1
Precio (sin IVA): 100,29 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 104,30 €
The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing to the creation of a mass-produced environment hostile to bodies and minds that did not adhere to emerging norms. In defining disability, medical views, which framed disabilities as problems to be solved, competed with discourses from such diverse realms as religion, entertainment, education, and literature. Disabled writers and activists generated important counternarratives, made increasingly available through the spread of print culture.