Material Bodies

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II. NotNormativelyHuman:CulturalGrammarsand
theHumanBody...........................................................................

1. CorporealNormsandtheExperienceofInequality................
   NormsasImaginaryGrammarofCulturalOughtness–The
   Normal and the Pathological: Canguilhem–Normalizing
   Society: Foucault – Communicative Normalization:
   Habermas–When Life Goes Public: Biological Normo-
   philia(s)–NormsandtheInstitutionalizationofJudgment–
   At the Far End of the Normative Body: Late Life and
   Disability

2."Age"asCulturalNormandForm ...........................................

The Age Chill Factor: Late Life as Bio-Cultural Pathology

• Normal Not to Be Normal: Gerontology and Age Studies


• "New Age"? Late Life and the Promises of Molecular
  Biology–Apocalyptic Embodiment: The Civic Identity of
  LateLife–Where"Age"Is:CulturalTopographiesofLate
  Life–"Age":EmbodiedSelfhoodorCulturalBrandName?

3. ExceptionIncorporated:DisabilityasInscription
   ofCulturalOtherness ..............................................................
   Oppositional Bodies, or, Disability's Challenge to Able-
   Bodied Normativity–The Hero's Two Bodies: Disabled
   Veterans–Left Behind: Disability in Veteran (Auto)Bio-
   graphies –"A Culture of Hope"? Disability as Media
   Format – Zones of Vulnerability: Disability and
   Environmental Exposure–Spectral Disabilities, or, What
   You See Is What You (Don't) Get – Markers of
   (Un)Certainty: "Age," "Disability" and Communicative
   Interaction