Disability in twentieth-century German culture / Carol Poore.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-401) and index.

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.