Remaking the Body: Rehabilitation and Change

by Wendy Seymour

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415186021
• ISBN13: 9780415186025
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"