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Horizon, Season 54, Episode 4, Spina Bifida And Me
directed by Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016; presented by Ruth Madeley, 1987-; produced by Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Horizon, Season 54, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 54 mins
Spina bifida is one of the most common birth defects in the world. It’s a problem in the development of the spine that causes disability and partial paralysis. Actor Ruth Madeley has been living with spina bifida all her life but, like many people, she still knows very little about it. In this moving film, she a...
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directed by Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016; presented by Ruth Madeley, 1987-; produced by Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Horizon, Season 54, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 54 mins
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Spina bifida is one of the most common birth defects in the world. It’s a problem in the development of the spine that causes disability and partial paralysis. Actor Ruth Madeley has been living with spina bifida all her life but, like many people, she still knows very little about it. In this moving film, she asks why does she have it when her sister doesn’t? And what are her chances of passing it on if she has children? Ruth meets the inter...
Spina bifida is one of the most common birth defects in the world. It’s a problem in the development of the spine that causes disability and partial paralysis. Actor Ruth Madeley has been living with spina bifida all her life but, like many people, she still knows very little about it. In this moving film, she asks why does she have it when her sister doesn’t? And what are her chances of passing it on if she has children? Ruth meets the international experts pioneering techniques to treat spina bifida, and follows some of the brightest minds in the field as they attempt in-utero surgery to correct for the condition.
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Health Policy
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Documentary
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Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Eileen Inkson, fl. 2002-2016, Ruth Madeley, 1987-
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Horizon
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Copyright © 2018 BBC Worldwide
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African Disability Rights Yearbook, Vol. 5 - 2017
edited by Serges Djoyou Kamga, Heléne Combrinck, Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Charles Ngwena (Pretoria, Gauteng: Pretoria University Law Press, 2017), 233 page(s)
The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual for...
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edited by Serges Djoyou Kamga, Heléne Combrinck, Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Charles Ngwena (Pretoria, Gauteng: Pretoria University Law Press, 2017), 233 page(s)
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The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based...
The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reprots as well as commentaries on recent developments in teh field of disability rights in the African region.
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Disability Studies
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Book
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Serges Djoyou Kamga, Heléne Combrinck, Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis, Charles Ngwena
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Pretoria University Law Press
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Copyright © 2017 Pretoria Univeristy Law Press (PULP)
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Barriers and Belongings: Personal Narratives of Disability
edited by Alison Quaggin Harkin, fl. 2017, Michelle Jarman, fl. 2007 and Leila Monaghan, fl. 2010 (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2017, originally published 2017), 297 page(s)
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to the essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to live with disability and why the field of disability studies matters....
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edited by Alison Quaggin Harkin, fl. 2017, Michelle Jarman, fl. 2007 and Leila Monaghan, fl. 2010 (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2017, originally published 2017), 297 page(s)
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What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to the essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to live with disability and why the field of disability studies matters. Every chapter includes key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading. Barriers and Belonging explores how disabi...
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to the essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to live with disability and why the field of disability studies matters. Every chapter includes key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading. Barriers and Belonging explores how disability informs self-knowledge, interpersonal and community relationships, and political commitments. Contributors offer experiential insight into living with an array of disabilities, from spinal cord injuries, blindness, deafness, and autism to psychiatric diagnoses, learning disabilities, and chronic pain. Several essays articulate activist and pride orientations toward disability, demonstrating the importance of understanding disability as a multi-dimensional process-as personal, relational and socio-political.
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Disability Studies
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Book
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Alison Quaggin Harkin, fl. 2017, Michelle Jarman, fl. 2007, Leila Monaghan, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Temple University Press
Topic / Theme
Disabled persons, Disabilities, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Dyslexia: A Beautiful Brain
directed by Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998; produced by Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998 (Privately Published, 2017), 53 mins
Dyslexia: A Beautiful Brain is a documentary showing what it is like to have dyslexia, the struggles, the challenges and what it is actually doing inside the brain when a dyslexic tries to read, write, speak, or interpret what they hear. The film weaves in students perspectives from 7 years old to 18, as well as t...
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directed by Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998; produced by Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998 (Privately Published, 2017), 53 mins
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Dyslexia: A Beautiful Brain is a documentary showing what it is like to have dyslexia, the struggles, the challenges and what it is actually doing inside the brain when a dyslexic tries to read, write, speak, or interpret what they hear. The film weaves in students perspectives from 7 years old to 18, as well as teachers who specialize in educating students who have challenges when reading and writing. Tufts University Neuroscientist, Dr. Maryann...
Dyslexia: A Beautiful Brain is a documentary showing what it is like to have dyslexia, the struggles, the challenges and what it is actually doing inside the brain when a dyslexic tries to read, write, speak, or interpret what they hear. The film weaves in students perspectives from 7 years old to 18, as well as teachers who specialize in educating students who have challenges when reading and writing. Tufts University Neuroscientist, Dr. Maryanne Wolf helps the audience understand the processing problems that dyslexics have. There are wonderful animated illustrates that give a sneak peak into the mind's eye of a dyslexic. The film is 52 minutes in length.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998
Author / Creator
Virginia Orzel, fl. 1998
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Privately Published
Speaker / Narrator
Maryanne Wolf, fl. 1994-2017
Person Discussed
Maryanne Wolf, fl. 1994-2017
Topic / Theme
Intellectual disabilities, Children, Learning, Reading
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Copyright © 2017 by Virginia Orzel
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edited by Andrea Kitta, fl. 2014 and Trevor J. Blank, fl. 2015; in Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015), 1-33
Diagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by medical stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to...
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edited by Andrea Kitta, fl. 2014 and Trevor J. Blank, fl. 2015; in Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015), 1-33
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Diagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by medical stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, helpin...
Diagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by medical stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies.
This book consists of three sections, each dedicated to key issues in disability, health, and trauma. It explores the confluence of disability, ethnography, and the stigmatized vernacular through communicative competence, esoteric and exoteric groups in the Special Olympics, and the role of family in stigmatized communities. Then, it considers knowledge, belief, and treatment in regional and ethnic communities with case studies from the Latino/a community in Los Angeles, Javanese Indonesia, and Middle America. Lastly, the volume looks to the performance of mental illness, stigma, and trauma through contemporary legends about mental illness, vlogs on bipolar disorder, medical fetishism, and veterans' stories.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Front/back matter
Contributor
Andrea Kitta, fl. 2014, Trevor J. Blank, fl. 2015
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Topic / Theme
Ethnopsychology, Intellectual disabilities, Physical disabilities, Folklore, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Copyright © 2015 University Press of Mississippi
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Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century
edited by Chris Mounsey, fl. 1998 (Lanham, MD and Lewisburg, PA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and Bucknell University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 280 page(s)
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rej...
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edited by Chris Mounsey, fl. 1998 (Lanham, MD and Lewisburg, PA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and Bucknell University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 280 page(s)
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The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical or mental difference. We then move to John Locke, the...
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical or mental difference. We then move to John Locke, the founder of empiricism in 1680, who believed that the basis of knowledge was observability, but who, faced with the lack of anything to observe, broke his own epistemological rules in his explanation of mental illness. Understanding the problems that empiricism set up, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, turned in 1711 to moral philosophy, but also founded his philosophy on a flaw. He believed in the harmony of 'the aesthetic trinity of beauty, truth, and virtue' but he could not believe that a disabled friend, whom he knew to have been moral before his physical alteration, could change inside. Lastly, we explore Thomas Reid who in 1788 returned to the body as the ground of philosophical inquiry and saw the body as a whole—complete in itself and wanting nothing, be it missing a sense (Reid was deaf) or a physical or mental capacity. At the heart of the study of any historical artifact is the question of where to look for evidence, and when looking for evidence of disability, we have largely to rely upon texts. However, texts come in many forms, and the next two essays explore three types—the novel, the periodical and the pamphlet—which pour out their ideas of disability in different ways. Evidence of disabled people in the eighteenth century is sparse, and the lives the more evanescent. The last four essays bring to light little known disabled people, or people who are little known for their disability, giving various forms of biographical accounts of Susanna Harrison, Sarah Scott, Priscilla Poynton and Thomas Gills, who are all but forgotten in the academic world as well as to public consciousness.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Chris Mounsey, fl. 1998
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Bucknell University Press
Topic / Theme
Physical disabilities, Philosophy, Human body, Mental illnesses, Disabled persons, Early National Era (1790–1828), Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Colonial Era (1650–1765)
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Copyright © 2014 by Rowman & Littlefield
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Dis /ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism
written by Dan Goodley, 1972- (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 225 page(s)
In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project – dis/ability studies – an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability.
Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociolog...
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written by Dan Goodley, 1972- (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 225 page(s)
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In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project – dis/ability studies – an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability.
Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most topical and important issues in critical di...
In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project – dis/ability studies – an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability.
Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most topical and important issues in critical disability theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new analytical framework to a range of critical topics, including:
The biopolitics of dis/ability and debility
Inclusive education
Psychopathology
Markets, communities and civil society.
Dis/ability Studies provides much needed depth, texture and analysis in this emerging discipline. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Dan Goodley, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Disabilities, Discrimination, Disabled persons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: History, policy and everyday life
edited by Elena Iarskia-Smirnova and Michael Rasell, fl. 2008, in BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies, 94 (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 293 page(s)
There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and t...
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edited by Elena Iarskia-Smirnova and Michael Rasell, fl. 2008, in BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies, 94 (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 293 page(s)
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There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region to...
There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region today. Discussions of disability in culture and society highlight the broader conditions in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being whilst in-depth biographical profiles outline what living with disabilities in the region is like. Chapters on policy interventions, including international influences, examine recent reforms and the difficulties of implementing inclusive, community-based care. The book will be of interest both to regional specialists, for whom well-being, equality and human rights are crucial concerns, and to scholars of disability and social policy internationally.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
General reference book
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Elena Iarskia-Smirnova, Michael Rasell, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Topic / Theme
Physical disabilities, Disabled persons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Post-war Era (1945–1960), The Sixties (1960–1974), Late 20th Century (1975–2000)
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Copyright © 2014 Michael Rasell and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova for selection and editorial matter. Individual contributors, their contributions.
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Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series, Disability and the Good Human Life
edited by Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder and Jerome Bickenbach, 1948-, in Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 342 page(s)
This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a debate that has recently flared up in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarsh...
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edited by Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder and Jerome Bickenbach, 1948-, in Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 342 page(s)
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This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a debate that has recently flared up in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it is also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: What is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not b...
This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a debate that has recently flared up in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it is also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: What is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently, implicitly or explicitly, disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues as well as practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder, Jerome Bickenbach, 1948-
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Topic / Theme
Disabled persons, Philosophy, Quality of life, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Disability Rhetoric
written by Jay T. Dolmage, fl. 2017, in Critical Perspectives on Disability, 4 of 5 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 331 page(s)
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues...
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written by Jay T. Dolmage, fl. 2017, in Critical Perspectives on Disability, 4 of 5 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 331 page(s)
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Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Follo...
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
General reference book
Author / Creator
Jay T. Dolmage, fl. 2017
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Series
Critical Perspectives on Disability
Topic / Theme
Disabilities, Social sciences, Discrimination, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Copyright © 2014 Syracuse University
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