Abject Love : Undoing the Boundaries of Physical Disability

ISBN-13: 9783639130089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str.

Minae Inahara

Opis

Abject Love examines the process by which bodiesbecomes labelled able-bodied or disabled', andinterrogates the constitution of these categories. Not all bodies are able-bodied, but all human beingshave bodies that someday stop functioning. Inaharasuggests that we cannot simply assume a naturaldivision between the able-bodied and the disabled. This book explores the different ways in which we cantheorise physical disability and argues, using thework of psychoanalytic and poststructuralistfeminists, (including Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray,and Julia Kristeva), that the allocation of thecategory of disability is a process of abjection. The abject' is something that society constantlyattempts to throw out because it unsettles carefullybounded conceptions of self'. Throughout the bookthe theoretical narrative is anchored in reading ofcultural texts, particularly film, but also includingart and performance.

O autorze

Minae Inahara is an Honorary Research Associate in Philosophy,
attached to the Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity,
at the University of Hull, UK.