American Bodies Stuart Ovenden With a focus on observing

With a focus on observing and analyzing student actions

but rather convey a multitude of complaints

and Philip Woods shows us how we might think differently about it

Although initially developed for use with people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities

American Bodies Stuart Ovenden With a focus on observingMost human bodies have two arms, two legs, hands, feet, a head. Yet the body, as we perceive it, is ultimately a cultural construct defined by the values and meanings each individual, and each culture, ascribes to it. Beyond its corporeal realities, the implications of the body how we adorn, alter, heal, and please it are potentially endless, limited only by the manner in which we frame it. Revealing how the human body has served as as metaphor for