1st Edition
Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities
1. Introduction: Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki
2. The Ends of the Body as Pedagogic Possibility Tanya Titchkosky
3. Why Do Dolls Die? The Power of Passivity and the Embodied Interplay Between Disability and Sex Dolls Eunjung Kim
4. Augmented Spirit/Extreme Embodiment: A Mapped Landscape of Vent Life Katerie Gladdys and Deshae E. Lott
5. The Reworking of Spatial Attribution: People with Intellectual Disabilities and the Micropolitics of Dissensus Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon
6. The Narrator Witness: Dis/Connections Between Disability and Death Nicole Markotić
7. Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer Danielle Peers, Melisa Brittain, and Robert McRuer
8. The Specials Meet the Lady Boys of Bangkok: Sexual and Gender Transgression and Smashing Intellectual Disability Michael Gill
9. Intimate Borders: The Ethics of Human Organ Transplantation in Contemporary Film Donna McCormack
10. ‘‘The Most Famous Brain in the World’’: Performance and Pedagogy on an Amnesiac’s Brain Katherine W. Sweaney
11. Ending Fat Stigma: Precious, Visual Culture, and Anti-Obesity in the ‘‘Fat Moment’’ Scott Stoneman
12. Afterword: The End of Contested Corporealities Robert McRuer
Biography
Sarah Brophy is an Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. She is the author of Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (2004) and of essays in the End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and Literature and Medicine. With Janice Hladki, she has co-edited the volume Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (2014). Collaborative work includes exhibitions on political video art and self-portraiture (2010, 2014-15) as well as co-edited special issues of Interventions (2013) and the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (2012).
Janice Hladki is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Film Studies, School of the Arts, at McMaster University, Canada. With Sarah Brophy, she has co-edited the volume Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (2014). Recent publications include the exhibition book, Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video (2010) and essays in Feminist Media Studies, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (with S. Brophy), and the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art. Her recent curatorial work includes Fierce, and, with S. Brophy, Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art (2010-2011) and This is Me. This is Also Me (2014-15).
