Mind and Body Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability
Redaktion: Butler, Ruth; Parr, Hester

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including:
* historical conceptions of the body and behaviour
* contemporary political activism
* matters of identity and employment
* accessible housing
* parenthood and child carers
* psychiatric medication use
* masculinity and sexuality
* autobiography
* social exclusion and inclusion.
The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward Hall, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, Flora Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134682119
• Artikelnr.: 38258467

Autorenporträt

Ruth Butler, Hester Parr

Inhaltsangabe

1: New Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability
2: The Body, Disability and Le Corbusier's Conception of the Radiant Environment
3: The Moral Topography of Intemperance
4: Rhetoric and Place in the 'Mental Deficiency' Asylum
5: Can Technology Overcome the Disabling City?
6: Body Troubles: Women, the Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity
7: Workspaces: Refiguring the Disability-Employment Debate
8: Autobiographical Notes on Chronic Illness
9: What it Means to be a Man the Body, Masculinities, Disability
10: Bodies and Psychiatric Medicine: Interpreting Different Geographies of Mental Health
11: Double the Trouble or Twice the Fun? Disabled Bodies in the Gay Community
12: Without these Walls: A Geography of Mental Illhealth in a Rural Environment
13: Accommodating Difference: Social Justice, Disability and the Design of Affordable Housing
14: 'Caught in the Cinderella Trap': Narratives of Disabled Parents and Young Carers
15: Body Politics: Disabled Women's Activism in Canada and Beyond