| Remaking the Body: Rehabilitation and Change Contributor(s): Seymour, Wendy (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0415186013 ISBN-13: 9780415186018 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: Our lives are preoccupied with bodily maintenance. We spend many of our waking hours eating, exercising, washing, grooming and dressing in order to maintain our sense of self. What happens after major physical impairment? How do we relate to a damaged body? Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sports. She finds that even major impairment hasn't annihilated these people's experience of an embodied self. She shows that the process of self-reconstruction is interwoven with social expectations and argues that the experience of disability highlights the continuous work involved in embodiment for everyone. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work - Health & Fitness | Physical Impairments - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 155.916 |
| LCCN: 97046633 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.54" W x 8.76" (0.92 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sport. She finds that even major impairment hasn't annihilated these people's experience of an embodied self. She shows that the process of self-reconstruction is interwoven with social expectations and argues that the experience of disability highlights the continuous work involved in embodiment for everyone. |