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The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era
Lennard Davis
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Description for The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era
Hardcover. Explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book's provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues ... Read more
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072026
SKU
V9780472072026
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About Lennard Davis
Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Disability and Human Development in the College of Applied Health Sciences, and Professor of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
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