Mind and Body Spaces

by Butler; Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780415179034
• ISBN10: 0415179033
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mind and Body Spaceshighlights new international research from the US, Canada, Britain and Australia on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. International contributors discuss a variety of current issues including the historical conceptions of the body and behavior as well as masculinity and sexuality.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Preface and acknowledgements	xi
New geographies of illness, impairment and disability	1	(24)
Hester Parr
Ruth Butler
The body, disability and Le Corbusier's conception of the radiant environment	25	(21)
Rob Imrie
The moral topography of intemperance	46	(24)
Michael L. Dorn
Rhetoric and place in the `mental deficiency' asylum	70	(28)
Deborah Carter Park
John Radford
Can technology overcome the disabling city?	98	(21)
Brendan Gleeson
Body troubles: women, the workplace and negotiations of a disabled identity	119	(19)
Isabel Dyck
Workspaces: refiguring the disability-employment debate	138	(17)
Edward Hall
Autobiographical notes on chronic illness	155	(12)
Pamela Moss
What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability	167	(14)
Gill Valentine
Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental health	181	(22)
Hester Parr
Double the troble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community	203	(18)
Ruth Butler
Without these walls: a geography of mental ill-health in a rural environment	221	(19)
Christine Milligan
Accommodating difference: social justice, disability and the design of affordable housing	240	(16)
Flora Gathorne-Hardy
`Caught in the Cinderella trap': narratives of disabled parents and young carers	256	(13)
Jane Stables
Flona Smith
Body politics: disabled women's activism in Canada and beyond	269	(26)
Vera Chouinard
Index	295