The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability In the late-nineteenth and
early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting" unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities …

A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic,
authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated …

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts,
social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of …

Drawing on Sara Ahmed, this article confronts the often repeated claim that feminists and/or
social constructionists–even those whose work appears to focus on 'the body'–routinely …

This article discusses the acquisition of a physical impairment/disability through voluntary
body modification, or transability. From the perspectives of critical genealogy and feminist …

In this paper we explore current theoretical approaches available from the discipline of
critical disability studies (CDS) for conceptualizing physical disability and advocate how …

The trope of the wrong body is of interest to me not least because it is at once a
universalizing concept and one which functions variously in relation to different modes of …

Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags,
it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporealflagging' …

Sex-Positive Criminology proposes a new way to think about sexuality in the fields of
criminology and criminal justice. Sex-positivity is framed as a humanizing approach to …

In 2007 I was invited to present a keynote address at a conference entitled
'Transsomatechnics: Practices and Theories of Transgender Embodiment'to be held the …