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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), 52 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), 52 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
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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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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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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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Copyright © 2014 Dan Goodley
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Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series, Disability and the Good Human Life
edited by Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder, fl. ? 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, fl. ? 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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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder, fl. ?, 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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Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
written by Elizabeth DePoy, fl. 2014 and Stephen F. Gilson, fl. 2014, in Routledge Advances in Disability Studies (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 303 page(s)
Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of social change. Grou...
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written by Elizabeth DePoy, fl. 2014 and Stephen F. Gilson, fl. 2014, in Routledge Advances in Disability Studies (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 303 page(s)
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Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of social change. Groups designed as devalued can be undesigned, redesigned and rebranded to seamlessly and equivalently participate in community, work and c...
Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of social change. Groups designed as devalued can be undesigned, redesigned and rebranded to seamlessly and equivalently participate in community, work and civic life. This innovative book argues that disability as a concept and category is created, reified, and segregated through current design and branding that begs for creative change.
Transcending models of disability that locate it either as an embodied medical condition or as a socially constructed entity, this book challenges the very existence and usefulness of the category itself. Proposing and illustrating creative and responsible design, DePoy and Gilson include thinking and action strategies that are useful and potent for "undesigning", redesigning, and rebranding to meet the full range of human needs and to enhance full participation in local through global communities. Divided into two parts, the first section presents a critical examination of disability as a designed and branded phenomenon, exploring what exactly is being designed and branded and how. The second part investigates the redesign of disability and provides principles for redesign and rebranding illustrated with examples from high-tech to place-based sustainable strategies.
The book provides a unique and contemporary framework for thinking about disability as well as providing relevant design and branding guidance to designers and engineers interested in embodiment issues.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Elizabeth DePoy, fl. 2014, Stephen F. Gilson, fl. 2014
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Topic / Theme
Ethnosociology, Disabled persons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Copyright © 2014 Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson
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Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies
edited by David Bolt, fl. 2009, in Routledge Advances in Disability Studies (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 191 page(s)
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these le...
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edited by David Bolt, fl. 2009, in Routledge Advances in Disability Studies (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 191 page(s)
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Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change.
This unique book provides a much needed, multifacet...
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change.
This unique book provides a much needed, multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, broadly conceived, in order to provide a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the documentation and endorsement of changing social attitudes toward disability. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars in the field, the book aims to break down some of the unhelpful boundaries between disciplines so that disability is recognised as an issue for all of us across all aspects of society, and to encourage readers to recognise disability in all its forms and within all its contexts.
This truly multidimensional approach to changing social attitudes will be important reading for students and researchers of disability from education, cultural and disability studies, and all those interested in the questions and issues surrounding attitudes toward disability.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
David Bolt, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Topic / Theme
Attitude (Psychology), Sociology, Disabilities, Disabled persons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Copyright © 2014 David Bolt for selection and editorial matter. Individual contributors, their contributions.
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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 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 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
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General reference book
Contributor
Elena Iarskia-Smirnova, Michael Rasell, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
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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Mobility Impairment and the Construction of Identity
written by Brian W. Ward, fl. 2013 and Heather Ridolfo, fl. 2013 (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, originally published 2013), 202 page(s)
Heather Ridolfo and Brian Ward explore the experiences of people with impaired mobility, enhancing our understanding of why some embrace a disabled identity, why others reject it, and the personal and societal implications of both choices. Drawing on a combination of intimate interviews and statistical data, the a...
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written by Brian W. Ward, fl. 2013 and Heather Ridolfo, fl. 2013 (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, originally published 2013), 202 page(s)
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Heather Ridolfo and Brian Ward explore the experiences of people with impaired mobility, enhancing our understanding of why some embrace a disabled identity, why others reject it, and the personal and societal implications of both choices. Drawing on a combination of intimate interviews and statistical data, the authors unpack the ways that physical and social barriers shape personal ideas of disability. They also highlight the impact of interloc...
Heather Ridolfo and Brian Ward explore the experiences of people with impaired mobility, enhancing our understanding of why some embrace a disabled identity, why others reject it, and the personal and societal implications of both choices. Drawing on a combination of intimate interviews and statistical data, the authors unpack the ways that physical and social barriers shape personal ideas of disability. They also highlight the impact of interlocking factors such as age, race, gender, and economic class. Their work provides important new insights, relevant to theory as well as policy and practice.
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Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Brian W. Ward, fl. 2013, Heather Ridolfo, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Topic / Theme
Identity (Psychology), Disabilities, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity
edited by Daniel Wilson, 1949- and Jeffrey Brune, 1972- (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 217 page(s)
Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person intentionally takes on a disability identity to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much-discussed ph...
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edited by Daniel Wilson, 1949- and Jeffrey Brune, 1972- (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 217 page(s)
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Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person intentionally takes on a disability identity to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much-discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue.The editors and contributors to this volume...
Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person intentionally takes on a disability identity to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much-discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue.The editors and contributors to this volume explore the intersections of disability, race, gender, and sexuality as these various aspects of identity influence each other and make identity fluid. They argue that the line between disability and normality is blurred, discussing disability as an individual identity and as a social category. And they discuss the role of stigma in decisions about whether or not to pass. Focusing on the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, the essays in Disability and Passing speak to the complexity of individual decisions about passing and open the conversation for broader discussion. Contributors include: Dea Boster, Allison Carey, Peta Cox, Kristen Harmon, David Linton, Michael Rembis, and the editors.
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Disability Studies
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Book
Contributor
Daniel Wilson, 1949-, Jeffrey Brune, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Temple University Press
Topic / Theme
Discrimination, Disabled persons, Passing (Identity), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Early National Era (1790–1828), Civil War (1860–1865), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Early 21st Century United States (2...
Discrimination, Disabled persons, Passing (Identity), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Early National Era (1790–1828), Civil War (1860–1865), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), Late 20th Century (1975–2000)
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