Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including:* historical conceptions of the body and behaviour* contemporary political activism* matters of identity and employment* accessible housing* parenthood and child carers* psychiatric medication use* masculinity and sexuality* autobiography* social exclusion and inclusion. The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward Hall, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, Flora Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.
Author(s): Ruth Butler
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 320
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The two models in disability and chronic illness studies......Page 15
Human geography and disability......Page 18
Wars over words: introducing impairment and illness......Page 20
New medical geographies......Page 23
Mind and body: bringing mental differences into the picture......Page 24
This collection......Page 27
Conclusion......Page 32
References......Page 33
Introduction......Page 38
Modernity, technology and decontextualised/ disembodied architecture......Page 39
Spatial perfectibility, Le Corbusier and the radiant environment......Page 43
Reclaiming context and developing self-conscious embodied architecture: concluding thoughts......Page 50
Acknowledgements......Page 53
References......Page 55
Disability, alcohol and geography ‘under the influence’......Page 58
The moral project of medical topography......Page 62
Marketisation, democratisation and the turn to abstinence......Page 64
Casting new light on the alcohol trade......Page 68
Conclusion: from the natural to the normal body......Page 72
Notes......Page 74
References......Page 76
Introduction: statement of a problem......Page 82
Rhetoric and place in England, the United States and Canada......Page 83
Interpreting the trends: policy palimpsest......Page 85
The structure of the asylum mentalité......Page 87
Rhetoric of cost and cost efficiency......Page 90
Rhetoric of managerialism......Page 94
Rhetoric of sexuality......Page 99
Conclusion: nation/race and individual/body......Page 102
Secondary sources......Page 106
Manuscript sources......Page 108
Introduction: technological cures......Page 110
Defining disability......Page 112
The disabling city......Page 113
Natural limits: technical solutions......Page 114
Thoughtless design......Page 116
The rise of capitalism......Page 119
Is ‘environmental re-engineering’ the answer?......Page 121
Conclusion: a post-industrial utopia?......Page 123
Note......Page 126
References......Page 127
Introduction......Page 130
Bodies, identities, spaces: the embodied subject......Page 131
The study......Page 134
Rescripting the body: changing possibilities, changing subjectivities......Page 135
The workplace as a place of risk: fragmenting identities, destabilised meanings......Page 136
Negotiating the workplace and deferring meanings......Page 138
Negotiation and contestation of workplace meanings......Page 140
Discussion and concluding remarks......Page 143
References......Page 145
Understanding disability and employment......Page 148
Disability, employment and the body......Page 153
Employment and the body......Page 154
Work spaces of disability......Page 156
Refiguring disability and employment......Page 159
Concluding thoughts......Page 160
Notes......Page 161
References......Page 162
Writing autobiographically......Page 164
Placing autobiographical writing in feminist geography......Page 165
Some autobiographical notes on chronic illness......Page 166
Empathy and theory......Page 167
Inscription and disease......Page 168
Resistance and body......Page 170
Concluding remarks......Page 171
Postscript, from autumn 1998......Page 172
Notes......Page 173
References......Page 174
Introduction......Page 176
Doing gender: hegemonic masculinities......Page 178
Doing disability: coming to terms with bodily impairment......Page 181
Doing disabled masculinities: narratives of the self......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 185
Acknowledgements......Page 186
References......Page 187
Introduction: towards new geographies of mental health......Page 190
Bodies and geography......Page 192
Psychiatric services users in Nottingham......Page 193
The user organisation and medical critiques......Page 194
Mind/body space, medication and resistance......Page 195
Experiences of the medicated body......Page 198
Investigating alternatives in mind/body space: beyond medication......Page 199
Investigating alternatives in institutional space: mundane practicalities......Page 203
Conclusion......Page 204
Notes......Page 206
References......Page 208
11 DOUBLE THE TROUBLE OR TWICE THE FUN? DISABLED BODIES IN THE GAY COMMUNITY......Page 212
Representations and expectations of bodies......Page 213
The need to belong......Page 214
Passing as ‘normal’......Page 216
Access to the ‘scene’......Page 219
Fighting back......Page 221
Conclusions: implications for the disabled and gay populations......Page 224
Acknowledgements......Page 225
References......Page 226
The development of community-based mental health care in Scotland......Page 230
Geographical perspectives......Page 232
The issue of rurality......Page 233
The statutory sector......Page 234
The voluntary sector......Page 236
The role of the individual......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 243
Notes......Page 244
References......Page 245
Introduction......Page 250
Just design......Page 251
Researching the case study: the background......Page 255
The experiences of the resident group......Page 257
Next time?......Page 260
References......Page 263
The media......Page 266
Young carers in the media......Page 268
Victims of the Cinderella trap......Page 270
We are children, not carers......Page 271
The home: site of confusing emotions......Page 272
Conflict of interests......Page 273
Pathologised discourses of motherhood......Page 274
Conclusion......Page 276
References......Page 277
Introduction: missing in action?......Page 280
Making marginalised bodies visible: disabled women’s struggles in Canada......Page 281
Disabled women’s activism in Canada......Page 282
Socio-spatial barriers to disabled women’s activism......Page 288
Disabled women and the state......Page 292
Getting global: international organising initiatives......Page 296
Conclusions: making diverse bodies matter......Page 299
References......Page 303
INDEX......Page 306
