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Abject Love. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, April 2009, Pages: 192
Abject Love examines the process by which bodies
becomes labelled ‘able-bodied’ or ‘disabled', and
interrogates the constitution of these categories.
Not all bodies are able-bodied, but all human beings
have bodies that someday stop functioning. Inahara
suggests that we cannot simply assume a natural
division between the able-bodied and the disabled.
This book explores the different ways in which we can
theorise physical disability and argues, using the
work of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist
feminists, (including Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray,
and Julia Kristeva), that the allocation of the
category of disability is a process of abjection.
The‘abject' is something that society constantly
attempts to throw out because it unsettles carefully
bounded conceptions of‘self'. Throughout the book
the theoretical narrative is anchored in reading of
cultural texts, particularly film, but also including
art and performance.
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