Abject Love examines the process by which bodies becomes labelled ‘able-bodied’ or ‘disabled', and interrogates the constitution of these categories. Not all bodies are able-bodied, but all human beings have bodies that someday stop functioning. Inahara suggests that we cannot simply assume a natural division between the able-bodied and the disabled. This book explores the different ways in which we can theorise physical disability and argues, using the work of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist feminists, (including Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva), that the allocation of the category of disability is a process of abjection. The‘abject' is something that society constantly attempts to throw out because it unsettles carefully bounded conceptions of‘self'. Throughout the book the theoretical narrative is anchored in reading of cultural texts, particularly film, but also including art and performance.

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