Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body
by Lennard J. Davis, Lennard J. J. Davis
A critical study of how society defines and enforces norms around disability, deafness, and the body through cultural and institutional practices.
About This Book
Enforcing Normalcy explores the social and cultural construction of disability and deafness.
The book analyzes how norms of the body are created and maintained through language, institutions, and cultural practices.
It challenges traditional views of disability as purely medical or individual conditions.
The work draws on historical and theoretical perspectives to examine the politics of normalcy.
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