| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Interdisciplinary disability studies |
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Interdisciplinary disability studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Dis/abilities at the Intersections / Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Pat Reeve -- Part I. Foundations: Experience and Theories. The Art of Regarding Still Life / Pam Mullins -- Embodiment's Contributions to Appreciating Life with Disability and to Advancing Justice / Mary Crossley -- Part II. Rehabilitation, Disablement, and the State. Subjects of Industry: Craft Therapy, Its Photography, and Healing American Soldiers of World War 1 / Jennifer Way -- Medical Discourses on Dis/ability in State Socialist Romania: a Critical Genealogy / Radu-Harald Dinu -- Embodied Inequalities: Intersections of Disabilities and Gender in West Germany (1950-1990) / Sebastian Schlund -- Policing Dis/ability / Eric J. Miller -- Part III. Representation, Liminality, and Resistance. Reassessing Japanese Radical Feminism from the Vantage Point of Dis/ability / Anna Vittinghoff -- Sayonara CP: the First Filmic Representation of the Japanese Disability Right Movement / Anne-Lise Mithout -- Voltron: Legendary Defender and Compulsory Ablebodiness / Lauren Rouse -- Corrective Lens: Dis/abilities and the Materiality of Media / Micky Lee -- Part IV. The Political Embodiment of Personhood. Disability and Race in American History: Rhetoric and Reality in the Civil War and Post-Emancipation South / Jenifer Barclay -- Bending the Laws of Nature: DNA Literacy and the Coding of the Perfect Human Being / Raphaela Tkotzyk and Kim Carina Hebben -- Deconstructing Rules for Proof of Cognitive Impairments / Tom Lininger -- So that playing to win is not playing to die: Constructing Legal Recourse for Athletes with Sickle Cell Trait Laboring in the Actor-Networks of the Brown Commons / Madeleine Plasencia |
| Summary |
"This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations-the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not. Scholars and researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it accessible and informative"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Disabilities -- History
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People with disabilities -- History
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Intersectionality (Sociology) -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Handicapped.
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HISTORY / Social History.
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LAW / Disability.
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Disabilities.
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Intersectionality (Sociology)
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People with disabilities.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, Micky, editor.
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Cooper, Frank Rudy, editor.
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Reeve, Pat (Associate professor), editor.
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| LC no. |
2021061300 |
| ISBN |
9781000601183 |
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1000601188 |
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9781003257196 |
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1003257194 |
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