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Author Poore, Carol.

Title Disability in twentieth-century German culture / Carol Poore.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]
©2007
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 2nd FL Social Science Library Books  HV1559.G3 P66 2007    Available
Collation xxii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Series Corporealities
Corporealities.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401) and index.
Contents Disability in the culture of the Weimar Republic -- Disability and Nazi culture -- No friends of the Third Reich : different views of disability from exile -- Disability in the defeated nation : the Federal Republic -- Breaking the spell of metaphor : three examples from film, literature, and the media -- Disability and socialist images of the human being in the culture of the German Democratic Republic -- Disability rights, disability culture, disability studies -- German/American bodies politic : a look at some current biocultural debates -- We shall overcome overcoming : an American professor's reflections on disability in Germany and the United States.
Subject People with disabilities -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
People with disabilities -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century.
People with disabilities -- Germany (West) -- Public opinion.
People with disabilities -- Germany (East) -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Germany (West)
Public opinion -- Germany (East)
People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN 9780472115952 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472115952 (cloth : alk. paper)