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Enforcing Normalcy keyword-betsy-devos penning catalogue essays and exhibitionIn this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against ableist discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term normal as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent