TY - BOOK AU - Kuppers,Petra TI - Disability and contemporary performance: bodies on edge SN - 0415302382 U1 - 704.087 22 PY - 2003/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge KW - Sociology of disability KW - People with disabilities and the performing arts KW - Artists with disabilities N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Performance and disability: An introduction --; 1; Practices of reading difference --; 2; Freaks, stages, and medical theaters --; 3; Deconstructing images: Performing disability --; 4; Outsider energies --; 5; Encountering paralysis: Disability, traumas, and narrative --; 6; New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers --; Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings ER -