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Harvard University Press One of Us
Book SynopsisOne of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”Trade Review[Dreger] questions whether difference has to be viewed as an impairment and whether impairment is tragic… Disability arises not from the impairment but from the response to it in those around, and so is socially induced… Dreger makes no claim to know all the answers but, by taking their side so eloquently, she invites us to see conjoined twins as ‘no more broken than the rest of us.’ This book is an eloquent and humane plea to see conjoined twins, and others with impairment and disability, as ‘us’ and not ‘them.’ -- Jonathan Cole * Nature *Conjoined twins serve as a metaphor for fundamental truths about what it is to be human. Much of the book’s power, much of its importance, derives from the ways in which the stories it tells resonate with the lives of those who are neither conjoined nor intersexual… Let’s hope the publication of this book leads to…a serious rethinking of all our rights to consent to treatment, to privacy and autonomy, and to life itself. It is because this book has something important to say to ‘normates’ about their own lives, as well as about the lives of conjoined twins, that it stands a real chance of changing how we think about those with atypical anatomies. -- David Wootton * London Review of Books *Part history of medicine, part consciousness-raising freak show, this surprisingly entertaining book examines cultural reactions to conjoined twins and other anatomical anomalies. Dreger argues that Victorians were more appreciative than moderns of people born ‘different,’ viewing them as ‘authorities on a unique and strangely attractive experience.’ Nowadays, pediatric surgeons so prize normalcy that they perform sexual surgery on infants without concern for adult function; they may also withhold information from parents, and even override their consent, when dealing with birth defects… [H]er examples persuasively make the case that the anatomically different feel normal to themselves. * New Yorker *Challenging widely held assumptions is never easy, but that is exactly what Alice Dreger does in this thought provoking and compassionate book… Dreger suggests that raising the political consciousness of all those with unusual anatomies will benefit them and help shift societal attitudes towards acceptance and integration rather than ‘normalisation.’ This discussion will become increasingly important as medical techniques offer more sophisticated means of detecting, eliminating or treating the ‘abnormal.’ * Bulletin of Medical Ethics *Alice Dreger brims with concern about social attitudes towards people who don’t fit the stereotype of what is ‘normal’ and how this is reflected in deformities in general and conjoinedness in particular. If we look beyond her message—that concepts of ‘normality’ are paradoxically both flexible and rigid (to suit a range of prejudices), notoriously artificial and therefore undesirable—we see she has a point. With copious references, she shows that many sets of joined twins were content with their duplex identity, caring deeply about each other and accommodating their often striking psychological and intellectual differences with an intimacy we singletons can hardly imagine. -- Bob Rickard * Fortean Times *In this thoughtful and provocative examination of conjoined twins and other unusual anatomies, Dreger argues that the medically invasive, almost invariably life-threatening separation surgeries are unnecessary and performed, usually, before the people involved are old enough to consent to them. She claims that, historically, most conjoined twins have preferred conjoinment to life as singletons, as Dreger calls those who aren’t conjoined. Rather than changing conjoined twins so that the rest of us can fit them into our construction of normal human anatomy, Dreger believes singletons ought to expand their understanding of anatomical normality to include conjoined twins—and people with cleft lips, intersex genitalia, and other unusual anatomical features. -- John Green * Booklist *Dreger has written a book that is insightful, compassionate, critical, and interesting. She shows how understanding the history of medicine is essential for critically developing current ethical medical protocols and reconstructing what is taken to be normal. -- N. A. McHugh * Choice *Providing historical and contemporary evidence that most adult conjoined twins do not desire to be separated, and that many surgeries are carried out on children too young to object, Domurat Dreger voices distaste for Americans’ failure to tolerate anatomical difference and instead fetishize individualism at all cost… This pithily provocative critique of medical paternalism and society’s blind spot vis-à-vis anatomical standards provides a valuable opportunity to ponder the high-profile surgeries on conjoined twins that most of us know only through the news headlines we habitually fail to question. * Publishers Weekly *Are we singletons simpletons? It may be so. The evidence Alice Dreger marshals in this impressively argued, immensely readable book, suggests that conjoined twins are often perfectly at home in their shared skin, a fact that stretches, if anything, only our assumptions about their double lives. In articulating the rights of the individual in the most intimate of corporations, Dreger makes a persuasive argument for changing society rather than people. Given the recent deaths of the Bijani sisters following separation surgery, Dreger’s contribution to the debate has become even more important. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for MiddlesexOne of Us is a fascinating, reasoned, and marvelous exploration of a subject we can’t help being drawn to. Alice Dreger’s book has forced me to rethink my most basic assumptions about the issue of identity and seperateness, for which I am most grateful. -- Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner and My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDSNot simply a study of conjoinment, Alice Dreger’s book makes a complex and subtle argument for why we should trouble the notion of normal—perhaps the most unchallenged, seemingly commonsensical, foundational idea of our particular place and historical moment. Questioning such an accepted and unexamined concept as normal and the practices that enforce it requires careful rhetorical strategies, subtle arguments, and intricate complexity. Dreger has done this remarkably well, always keeping her writing accessible and lively. More important, she recognizes and acknowledges the cultural logic most of us have absorbed that supports our understanding of conjoinment as a personal tragedy to be undone by medical intervention at any cost and our view of conjoined people as suffering intensely because they are not singletons. One of Us marks an important and original contribution. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, author of Extraordinary BodiesDreger is a perceptive, warm, thought-provoking and at just the right times, humorous writer. Her goal—to transform the assumptions made about people born with unusual anatomies—is wonderful and essential, especially for a culture that wishes to embrace diversity. Although her focus is on the most extraordinary form of human anatomy, conjoined twins, she also explores intersex, dwarfism, gigantism and cleft lip in her effort to reform the ‘deformed’ narrative. She weaves these voices with her own, creating a powerful historical perspective on the intersection of anatomy, surgery and social identity. After reading this book, all readers will reflect on being ‘defective,’ on the myriad ways that the body is and is not our destiny. -- Jeanne McDermott, author of Babyface: A Story of Heart and BonesFrom the freak show to the talk show, from the operating theater to the courtroom, Dreger traces the history, ethics, and cultural meanings of our attitudes toward conjoined twins and other people with unusual anatomies. This compassionate and well-researched study is a fascinating and important contribution to medical ethics. -- Katharine Park, Harvard University, coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1250–1750Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Limits of Individuality 2. Split Decisions 3. What Sacrifice 4. Freeing the Irish Giant 5. The Future of Anatomy Notes Acknowledgments Credits Index Illustrations 1. Eng and Chang Bunker as young men 2. The Bunker twins with two of their sons 3. Types of conjoinment 4. Laloo and his parasitic twin 5. Abigail and Brittany Hensel at play in the family home 6. Chang and Eng Bunker engaged in various pursuits 7. Lin and Win Htut before separation 8. Cover of AORN Journal, January 1982 9. The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal 10. Charles Byrne with two other giants and several people with dwarfism 11. Advertising pamphlet for Millie and Christina McCoy 12. Crouching Figure with Visible Skeleton, by Laura Ferguson
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Harvard University Press Inside Deaf Culture
Book SynopsisIn this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.Trade ReviewThis well-organized and clearly written book provides a fascinating inside look at the development of Deaf culture… Padden and Humphries’s presentation of these marvelous insights into the history and development of the language and beliefs of the Deaf should be viewed as a welcome step in the quest to inform the hearing world of the rich and fertile culture of the authors’ beloved community. -- Susan Waltzman * New England Journal of Medicine *Inside Deaf Culture is a fascinating account of the rise of group identity among deaf people… Padden and Humphries shed light on the rise of Deaf schools, social clubs and theaters from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries—a history that is unknown to many. -- Jeremy Funk * Christian Century *Carol Padden and Tom Humphries have done it again—and readers everywhere should be grateful. Almost twenty years ago, Padden and Humphries helped transform the nascent and promising field of deaf history with their path-breaking and still relevant book, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. In their current work, Padden and Humphries further explore formative ‘cultural moments’ in the deaf community—what they describe as the generative ideas and influences that shape how deaf people identify themselves… This book is a valuable exploration of the deaf community. -- Robert M. Buchanan * American Historical Review *What a bold and courageous book! Carol Padden and Tom Humphries shed light on significant moments in the history of the American Deaf community. They show how struggles for power and dominance have run through their experience for more than a century, from coercive methods of teaching language to efforts of modern science to ‘correct’ and possibly even eliminate deafness—and with it, Deaf culture. -- Glenn Anderson, Professor and Director of Training, University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Research & Training Center for Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of HearingInside Deaf Culture is a valuable addition to the growing collection of historical material about the Deaf community in the United States of America. It will add much to a better understanding of who we Deaf people are. -- Jack Gannon, author of Deaf HeritageWith writing remarkable for its grace, simplicity, and clarity, Padden and Humphries hold Deaf culture before our eyes for many faceted inspection. This book will be enormously important to ASL teachers, to teachers of Deaf studies, and to Deaf and hearing people who want to understand the Deaf World. -- Harlan Lane, author of A Journey into the Deaf-WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Lens of Culture 1. Silenced Bodies 2. An Entirely Separate School 3. The Problem of Voice 4. A New Class Consciousness 5. Technology of Voice 6. Anxiety of Culture 7. The Promise of Culture 8. Cultures into the Future Notes References Acknowledgments Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Work and Disability
Book SynopsisSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature.Trade Review �Simcock and Castle offer a critical but balanced account of the role, function and context of social work with disabled people. The book is clear in asserting that social workers have an important and often positive role in the lives of disabled people. Countering some earlier texts which tended to be anti-social work and anti-professional, the authors make plain the barriers to enabling social work and the way the policy environment makes life challenging for disabled people and social workers. Optimistic in tone and practical in orientation, I would recommend it for practice and policy audiences alike.�Alan Roulstone, University of Leeds �This book is a very welcome addition to the limited literature on social work practice with disabled people. Its strength lies in linking a social model discourse with contemporary challenges for social work practice in this area. As such it �bridges the gap� between theoretical concepts and practice realities. It will serve as an excellent resource for discussion and debate with social work students.�David Mercer, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of Contents Introduction PART I Perspectives: Understanding Disability 1 Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work 2 Theories and Models of Disability 3 Disability from a Life Course Perspective 4 The Legal and Policy Perspective PART II Diversity, Inequality and Disability 5 Inequality, Oppression and Disability 6 Disability and Diversity PART III Disability and Social Work Practice 7 Communication and Engagement 8 Working with Disabled Children 9 Working with Disabled Adults 10 Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability 11 Collaborative Practice Conclusion Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Work and Disability
Book SynopsisSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature.Table of Contents Introduction PART I Perspectives: Understanding Disability 1 Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work 2 Theories and Models of Disability 3 Disability from a Life Course Perspective 4 The Legal and Policy Perspective PART II Diversity, Inequality and Disability 5 Inequality, Oppression and Disability 6 Disability and Diversity PART III Disability and Social Work Practice 7 Communication and Engagement 8 Working with Disabled Children 9 Working with Disabled Adults 10 Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability 11 Collaborative Practice Conclusion Bibliography
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John Wiley & Sons The Wheelchair Evaluation A Clinicians Guide A Clinicians Guide
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John Wiley & Sons Tender to the World Jean Vanier LArche and the United Church of Canada
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Mobilizing Metaphor
Book SynopsisMobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Until now, research on Canadian disability activism has focused on legal and policy spheres and overlooked how disability activism is as varied as the population it represents. Mobilizing Metaphor combines contributions by artists, activists, and academics (including an insightful concluding chapter by renowned disability scholar Tanya Titchkoksy) with rich illustrations and photographs to reveal how disability art is distinctive as both art and social action.As the contributors sketch the shifting contours of disability politics in Canada and show how disability oppression is not isolated from other prejudices, they challenge us to re-examine how we enact social and political change.Table of ContentsIntroductionIntroduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniPart 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro LeducPart 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane DriedgerPart 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle BelskyConclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya TitchkoskyIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Mobilizing Metaphor Art Culture and Disability
Book SynopsisMobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Table of ContentsIntroductionIntroduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniPart 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro LeducPart 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane DriedgerPart 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle BelskyConclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya TitchkoskyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Disabling Barriers
Book SynopsisDisabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement.Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers' compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.Trade ReviewDisabled Barriers is an intricate and thorough analysis of the interaction between labour histories and disability rights. The collection introduces a focus that has been largely ignored in the literature but would be quite valuable to researchers of labour and disability studies. -- Sara Klein, Research and Learning Services Librarian, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 *Table of ContentsForeword / Bryan D. PalmerIntroduction: Bringing History and Law to Disability Studies / Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin IsittPart 1: Historical Debates on Work and Disability1 Bearing the Marks of Capital: Solidarities and Fractures in E.T. Kingsley’s British Columbia / Mark Leier2 Employers, Disabled Workers, and the War on Attitudes in Late Twentieth-Century Canada / Dustin Galer3 Gender and the Value of Work in Canadian Disability History / Geoffrey ReaumePart 2: Debates in Disability Studies4 Dancing with a Cane: The Public Perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Disability / Anne Finger5 Disability in Motion: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Sensation, and the Emergence of Modern Vestibular Science in the Nineteenth Century / Mark Walters6 “Of Dark Type and Poor Physique”: Law, Immigration Restriction, and Disability in Canada, 1900–30 / Jen Rinaldi and Jay DolmagePart 3: Legal Debates7 Battling the Warrior-Litigator: An Exploration of Chronic Illness and Employment Discrimination Paradigms / Odelia R. Bay8 Towards Full Inclusion: Addressing the Issue of Income Inequality for People with Disabilities in Canada / Megan A. Rusciano9 Compensating Work-Related Disability: The Theory, Politics, and History of the Commodification-Decommodification Dialectic / Eric TuckerIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Law and Neurodiversity
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University of British Columbia Press Cripping Intersex
Book SynopsisIntersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.Cripping Intersex examines three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies and procedures; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Celeste E. Orr investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new approach to intersex studies and activism. The integration of feminist disability studies with intersex studies provides tools to break down the traditional sex dyad and the entrenched cultural mandate against intersex traits.This necessary work offers a radical new understanding of intersex-with-disability, pushing analyses of inter
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University of British Columbia Press Able to Lead
Book SynopsisAble to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.Trade ReviewThe authors’ focus on this historical figure enriches and widens the lens on BC’s history. -- Janet Nicol * BC Studies *Able to Lead... portrays the fractured politics of the B.C. labour left, providing an admiring account of the role of one man in that process… [the book] should achieve its stated goal of encouraging a new perception of the capabilities of disabled people while also prompting a rethink of the early North American left. -- Ron Verzuh, documentary filmmaker * The Ormsby Review *Able to Lead paints a vivid picture of a fascinating political figure whose oratory one would have liked to have experienced first-hand. -- Giselle Gerolami * Against the Current *...the book provides a rich and lively account of a dynamic period in the history of the Canadian left— and tantalizing glimpses of an extraordinary man who lived in the thick of it. -- John Baglow * Literary Review of Canada *...Malhotra and Isitt are to be commended for a book that, besides providing extraordinarily useful information on subjects ranging from the ubiquity of railway accidents in the late nineteenth century to the influence of eugenics on Canadian immigration policies at the same time, recognizes that Kingsley, even though he never spoke or wrote of his disability, likely constantly had to make decisions, whether about the class struggle or where to live, that reflected its existence in an ablist world. -- Neil Dhingra, University of Maryland * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Incident at Spring Gulch: Disablement, Litigation, and the Birth of a Revolutionary2 California Radical: Fighting for Free Speech and Running for Congress in the Socialist Labor Party3 Crossing the Line: Eugene Kingsley Arrives in British Columbia4 No Compromise: Kingsley and the Socialist Party of Canada5 Kingsley and the State6 The Twilight Years: Kingsley and the 1920s Canadian LeftConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of the Life and Political Times of E.T. KingsleyAppendix 2: E.T. Kingsley Election ResultsAppendix 3: Partial Record of E.T. Kingsley’s Public Speeches and LecturesAppendix 4: Obituary for E.T. KingsleyNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Disability Injustice
Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Disability Injustice
Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex
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University of British Columbia Press A World without Martha
Book SynopsisA World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister's institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society's inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.Trade ReviewA World without Martha reminds us that disability is not just an individual issue, it is a family issue. -- David J. Wilson * H-Disability *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note1 Baby2 Conceptions3 One on Every Street 4 Substitutions5 The Fairy Hill6 Jesus Loves Me7 Fair Exchange8 “Progress and Happiness”9 Revolutions10 Normalization11 Becoming Human12 Into the Fire13 Breakthroughs14 Echoes15 Crossing Over16 Ashes17 Remembering18 Not Ending19 Second Chances20 How Far You’ve Come21 Remember Every NamePostscript; A Note on Sources
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Cornell University Press Deaf in Japan Signing and the Politics of
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of deaf identity, minority politics, and sign language, traces the history of the deaf community in Japan.Trade ReviewNakamura's methodology combines the field techniques of anthropology, archival research, and the political analysis of social movements to gather information on deaf movements in Japan in the postwar era, with the goal of understanding what it means to subscribe to 'deaf identity' in Japan. She frequently includes cross-cultural perspectives from international deaf movements and language systems to contextualize the Japanese case, as well as poses thoughtful and provocative questions about personal and communal identities by comparing the Japanese deaf community to other minority groups in Japan. Nakamura's monograph is extremely important because it explores disability in a wider context—as deafness cuts across all class, ethnic, and gender lines—and explores disability as a social construct for identity formation. -- Carolyn S. Stevens * Journal of Japanese Studies *
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Cornell University Press The Other Welfare
Book SynopsisThe Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Because of the complex character of SSImarking both the high tide of the Great Society and the beginning of the retrenchment of the welfare stateit provides the perfect subject for assessing the development of the American state in the late twentieth century. SSI was launched with the hope of freeing welfare programs from social and political stigma; it instead became a source of controversy almost from its very start. Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation, it ended up repTrade ReviewThe Other Welfare is an excellent and insightful contribution to the study of federal and state interactions in social-welfare policy making and execution. In a few years its readers will want to return to it to trace the parallels between SSI and Obamacare. -- John E. Murray * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Berkowitz and DeWitt offer an exceptionally fine history of SSI. Along with their descriptive project, Berkowitz and DeWitt offer a handful of historically informed lessons for SSI, including how the perceived 'deservedness' of program beneficiaries can profoundly affect how policies are understood and how they are 'reformed.'. -- Stephen Pimpare * The Journal of American History, *Berkowitz and DeWitt's story of SSI illuminates not ony the program's participants but also the largely uncharted territory of social poicymaking after 'the high tide of the expansive welfare state of the postwar and Great Society eras.' Drawing on recent multidisciplinary scholarship on the state and American political development, they point to new structures and actors shaping social policy in an age of political conservatism, market ascendancy, congressional restructuring, and media saturation. -- Jennifer Mittelstadt * The American Historical Review *For those familiar with the SSI program, the details in the book will shed some needed light on the legislative wrangling that produced the program's cumbersome and often confusing structure. For those unfamiliar with SSI, the book is a well-documented reminder of the difficulties of efficiently and effectively managing federal income support programs across changing political and social environments. -- Mary C. Daly * Journal of Economic Literature *In their masterful historical account of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt argue convincingly that disability benefits policy, though little studied by historians and political scientists, is at the heart of contemporary debate over the proper scope of government and its capacity to do good.. Drawing from archival material not previously available, Berkowitz and DeWitt's The Other Welfare is a marvelous book and their inquiry a timely one. Reformers of the left and right, academics, and policy analysts would do well to heed its lessons as our nation, amid great public doubt, partisan rancor, and budgetary pressures, rolls out the Affordable Care Act, one of the most ambitious pieces of social legislation since SSI. -- Jennifer L. Erkul * Journal of Children and Poverty *This unusual book provides an in-depth history of the administration of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program from its inception through 1996 and the Clinton administration. Berkowitz and DeWitt examine the pressures and compromises they witnessed from their respective professional positions.... The authors' proximity to the program enables them to report the details of political maneuvers and policy proposals few others could achieve. * Choice *This well-researched and insightfully argued history of the SSI program tells us how and why SSI failed to reinvent welfare and illuminates our understanding of U.S. social policy in several fundamental ways along the way. It shows that welfare policy—particularly in the U.S. political-cultural context of deserving and underserving poor—is inherently fraught with controversy.... In this sense, it takes its place in the venerable tradition of American Political Development. -- Benjamin W. Veghte * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Creating a New Welfare Program: The Politics of Welfare and Social Security Reform in the Nixon Administration2. A Year in Transition: Why Planning for the New Program Became Difficult3. Launching the Program: Why the Program Began Badly4. The Emergence of a Disability Program: How the Program's Fundamental Identity Changed5. The Continuing Disability Reviews: How the Politics of Controversy Hindered the Program6. The Courts and Other Sources of Program Growth: How the Program Expanded in a Conservative Age7. The Welfare Reform of 1996: How the Program Became Swept Up in the Narrative of Welfare Fraud and Abuse8. Post-1996 Developments: A Brief PostscriptConclusionNotes Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Deaf in Japan
Book SynopsisKaren Nakamura combines history, life histories, ethnographic observation, and politico-linguistic analysis of sign language in Japan to open up sensible and much-needed debate on the multiplicity of the Japanese and their culture.?Sonia Ryang, The Johns Hopkins UniversityUntil the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver''s licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or were constantly unemployed, and schools for the deaf taught a difficult regimen of speechreading and oral speech methods rather than signing. After several decades of activism, deaf men and women are now largely accepted within mainstream Japanese society.Deaf in Japan, a groundbreaking study of deaf identity, minority politics, and sign language, traces the history of the deaf community in Japan, from the establishment of the firstTrade ReviewNakamura's methodology combines the field techniques of anthropology, archival research, and the political analysis of social movements to gather information on deaf movements in Japan in the postwar era, with the goal of understanding what it means to subscribe to 'deaf identity' in Japan. She frequently includes cross-cultural perspectives from international deaf movements and language systems to contextualize the Japanese case, as well as poses thoughtful and provocative questions about personal and communal identities by comparing the Japanese deaf community to other minority groups in Japan. Nakamura's monograph is extremely important because it explores disability in a wider context—as deafness cuts across all class, ethnic, and gender lines—and explores disability as a social construct for identity formation. -- Carolyn S. Stevens * Journal of Japanese Studies *
£22.79
MY - University of Toronto Press Reading and Writing Disability Differently
Book SynopsisIncorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.Trade Review"Titchkosky has written an important book that examines and showcases 'disability meaning making.' Her book has made a significant contribution to the literature not only on disability, but on the broader discourse of diversity, difference and change." Elizabeth DePoy, Review of Disability Studies vol 06:02:2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionText and the Life of DisabilityPART ONE: PROBLEMSTotally a Problem: Government Survey TextsMetamorphosis: Making Disability a Medical MatterReadingand Recognition: Un-doing Disability's Deadly StatusPART TWO: DIS-SOLUTIONSGoverning Embodiment: Technologies of Constituting Citizens with DisabilitiesOvercoming: Abled-Disabled and Other Acts of Normative ViolenceAfterword Notes ReferencesIndex
£26.09
University of Nebraska Press Disability Studies and the Environmental
Book SynopsisDesigned as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics.Trade Review"Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory examines the intersections of disability studies and environmentalism, and represents one of the first substantial collections of essays that explore this emerging area of inquiry in a pointed, interdisciplinary, and intersectional manner."—Christine Junker, ISLE"Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities charts an exciting and urgent new direction in scholarship for environmental literary critics and the environmental humanities more broadly."—Mary Foltz, The Year’s Work in English Studies“The most significant disability studies anthology to emerge in years. It is extremely important that these particular branches of academic and political work rub against each other.”—Susan M. Schweik, professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley and author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public “Contributes to multiple fields, responding to growing curricular and scholarly interest in environmental humanities and disability studies. . . . This will be a foundational text in its own right.”—Susan Burch, associate professor of American studies at Middlebury College and coeditor of At the Intersections: Deaf Meets Disability StudiesTable of ContentsForeword by Stacy Alaimo Introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara Part 1. Foundations 1. Risking Bodies in the Wild: The “Corporeal Unconscious” of American Adventure Culture Sarah Jaquette Ray 2. Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice Valerie Ann Johnson 3. Lead’s Racial Matters Mel Y. Chen 4. Defining Eco-ability: Social Justice and the Intersectionality of Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology Anthony J. Nocella II 5. The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism Matthew J. C. Cella 6. Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability Alison Kafer 7. Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure Eli Clare Part 2. New Essays Section 1: Corporeal Legacies of U.S. Nation-Building 8. Blind Indians: Káteri Tekakwí:tha and Joseph Amos’s Visions of Indigenous Resurgence 000 Siobhan Senier 9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos’s “Secret War” Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’s Politicization in Vieques’s Social Movement Víctor M. Torres-Vélez 11. War Contaminants and Environmental Justice: The Case of Congenital Heart Defects in Iraq Julie Sadler Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity 12. Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital Kelly Fritsch 13. “That Night”: Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and Environmental Justice Studies Anita Mannur Section 3: Food Justice 14. Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the Food Justice Movement Natasha Simpson 15. Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice Kim Q. Hall Section 4: Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space 16. The Invalid Sea: Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History Traci Brynne Voyles 17. La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health, 1942–1964 Mary E. Mendoza 18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them Jina B. Kim 19. Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism Sarah Gibbons Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications 20. Precarity and Cross-Species Identification: Autism, the Critique of Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 21. Autism and Environmental Identity: Environmental Justice and the Chains of Empathy Robert Melchior Figueroa 22. Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books Elizabeth A. Wheeler Source Acknowledgments Contributors Index
£73.80
Ohio University Press Beep
Book SynopsisIn Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense.Trade Review“Wanczyk gets it—that disability is a cultural formation and not a defect. The book offers a great example (much in the manner of early Tom Wolfe) of entering a relatively unknown and essentially closed world and making it entirely compelling and fully realizable for the general reader. It’s unusual, witty, and quite needed.”“In this finely balanced book, we get a contemplative look at this game, but not so contemplative as to be caught up in philosophy at the expense of the excitement and emotion of competition. …Beep is a work of sports reportage, earning a spot on the bookshelf next to insider chronicles of seasons like Molly Knight’s The Best Team Money Can Buy or David Halberstam’s Summer of ’49. But we also have here some fine travel writing, a history of the relatively new game, an exploration of an underrepresented culture, and even a memoir.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Beep is a fun and funny and supremely humane piece of sportswriting, a reminder of what sports are for. Wanczyk tells a great story, one that's alternately gripping and goofy, that’s not only about a particular game and the people that play it, but about why we play games in the first place.” * David Roth, writer, VICE Sports and cofounder, The Classical *“[Wanczyk] eschews cliches about athletes overcoming adversity in favor of warts-and-all accounts of the often-obsessive characters who play the game.”“This is a remarkable book on a rather remarkable topic.” * Camden Depot *
£16.14
John Wiley & Sons DisCrit Expanded Reverberations Ruptures and
Book SynopsisExplores how DisCrit has both deepened and expanded, providing increasingly nuanced understandings about how racism and ableism circulate across geographic borders, academic disciplines, multiplicative identities, intersecting oppressions, and individual and cultural resistances.Table of Contents Contents Foreword: The Future(s) of Disability: Of Complementary Representations, Heteroglossic Communities, and Moral Leadership ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Reflecting on DisCrit 1 Subini Annamma, Beth A. Ferri, & David Connor PART I: OUTWARD INQUIRIES 11 1. Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law 13 Jamelia N. Morgan 2. Collusive Symbiosis: Notes on Disability as White Property in Higher Education 31 Lauren E. Shallish, Michael D. Smith, & Ashley Taylor 3. Disrupting Dominant Modes of Expression: Illuminating the Strengths and Gifts of Two Disabled Girls of Color 45 Amanda Miller, Sylvia Nyegenye, & Rose Mostafa-Shoukry 4. "It Feels Like Living in a Limbo": Exploring the Limits of Inclusion for Children Living at the Global Affective Intersections of Dis/ability, Language, and Migration in Italy and the United States 62 Valentina Migliarini, Chelsea Stinson, & David I. Hernández-Saca PART II: INWARD INQUIRIES 79 5. Does DisCrit Travel? The Global South and Excess Theoretical Baggage Fees 81 Tanushree Sarkar, Carlyn Mueller, & Anjali Forber-Pratt 6. Identity Politics: Exploring DisCrit's Potential to Empower Activism and Collective Resistance 96 Joy Banks, Phillandra Smith, & D'Arcee Charington Neal 7. A DisCrit Call for the Abolition of School Police 112 Christina Payne-Tsoupros & Najma Johnson 8. Perfect or Mocha: Language Policing and Pathologization 129 Jennifer Phuong & María Cioè-Peña PART III: MARGIN TO MARGIN 145 9. LatDisCrit: Exploring Latinx Global South DisCrit Reverberations as Spaces Toward Emancipatory Learning and Radical Solidarity 147 Alexis Padilla 10. Unveiling the Intersections of Race and Disability in Students with Significant Support Needs 163 Nitasha M. Clark, George W. Noblit, Charna D'Ardenne, David A. Koppenhaver, & Karen Erickson 11. Theorizing the Curriculum of Colonization in the U.S. Deaf Context: Situating DisCrit Within a Framework of Decolonization 179 Gloshanda Lawyer Conclusion 199 Beth A. Ferri, David J. Connor, & Subinni A. Annamma About the Authors 211 Index 219
£38.21
John Wiley & Sons Why Are So Many Students of Color in Special Edu
Book SynopsisBringing to life the voices of children, families, and school personnel, this bestseller describes in detail the school climates and social processes that place many children of color at risk of being assigned inappropriate disability labels.Table of Contents Contents Foreword to the Third Edition Alfredo J. Artiles ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Overview: Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education 39 3. School Structure: Institutional Bias and Individual Agency 58 4. Cultural Consonance, Dissonance, and the Nuances of Racism 74 5. In the Classroom: Opportunity to Learn 90 6. The Construction of Family Identity: Stereotypes and Cultural Capital 103 7. At the Conference Table: The Discourse of Identity Construction 122 8. Bilingual Issues and the Referral Process 143 9. Constructing Intellectual Disability: Cracks and Redundancies 153 10. Constructing Learning Disabilities: Redundancies and Discrepancies 161 11. Constructing Emotional/Behavior Disorders: From Troubling to Troubled Behavior 174 12. Into Special Education: Exile or Solution? 186 13. Conclusions and Recommendations 199 Epilogue. Research Methods: Who Are We, and How Did We Do This Research? 213 References 236 Index 252 About the Authors 259
£33.11
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Writing Deafness The Hearing Line in
Book SynopsisTaking an original approach to American literature, this book examines nineteenth-century writing from a different angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. It is a useful reading for students of American literature and culture, deaf studies, and disability studies.
£24.26
University of Pennsylvania Press Civil Disabilities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Insightful, comprehensive, and personal. . . . These essays illuminate the social, political and environmental realities that have been variably experienced as helpful and harmful to the citizenship of those identified as disabled. The authors provide meaningful conceptualization and develop lexicon which enhance understanding of the obstacles to full citizenship, membership and belonging. The resulting narrative is steeped in the everyday experience of differentness that illuminates the impact of economic, legal, political and social forces." * Sex and Disability. *"Nancy Hirschmann and Beth Linker have compiled a set of arguments both impressive and accessible. . . . The editors and authors seize the opportunity to rethink issues of citizenship and collectivity in societies intrinsically based on concepts of normativity and admittance, which repeatedly disadvantage a sizable proportion of the population. Taking into account congenital disability, illness, age and institutions, these approaches cover a wide and evocative set of antinormative political positions." * Perspectives on Politics *"Civil Disabilities leaves no doubt that disability is central to the history, theory, and acts of citizenship. This marvelous collection of smart and varied essays argues that ideologies of disability draw the lines of membership and belonging that shape all of our lives-legally, economically, politically, and socially. Scholars of citizenship, from both the humanities and social sciences, will benefit from this book." * Kim E. Nielson, University of Toledo *"Civil Disabilities is a seriously interdisciplinary examination of the ways ideas of citizenship are deeply linked to disability, disabled people, and their families. Essays written by distinguished scholars educate us in this crucial area that is too often overlooked or given short shrift. An illuminating and truly educational book." * Lennard Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago *
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Family Trouble MiddleClass Parents Childrens Problems and The Disruption of Everyday Life
Book SynopsisOur children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical, psychological, and social challenges. Francis interviewed the mothers and fathers of children with such problems as depression, bi-polar disorder, autism, learning disabilities, drug addiction, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and cerebral palsy. Children's problems, she finds, profoundly upset the foundations of parents' everyday lives, overturning taken-for-granted expectations, daily routines, and personal relationships. Indeed, these problems initiated a chain of disruption that moved through parents' lives in domino-like fashion, culminating in a crisis characterized by uncertainty, loneliness, guTrade Review“This smart, engaging book demonstrates the complicated nature of parenthood - a salient identity for most adults in the United States today. Especially impressive is Francis’s ability to weave through multiple sociological constructs and subfields, including medicalization, stigma, identity, emotion work, gender, and disability.” * American Journal of Sociology *"An exquisite and magnificent piece of sociological scholarship, Family Trouble is clear, interesting, and highly engaging. Francis’s study and analysis are rich and nuanced as she covers the many dimensions of the phenomenon she calls 'family trouble.'" -- Eviatar Zerubavel * author of Hidden in Plain Sight as well as Ancestors and Relatives *"Family Trouble offers rich, empirically based insights into the everyday, relational and emotional processes that mark the distinctive forms of 'concerted cultivation' pursued by contemporary middle-class American families with 'problemed' children." -- Robert M. Emerson * professor emeritus of sociology at UCLA *Table of ContentsPreface1 Parents in Trouble2 Constructing Trouble, Losing Certainty3 Elusive Remedies and Disrupted Routines4 Stigma and Disrupted Relationships5 Unmet Expectations and Emotional Turmoil6 Disrupted Selves, Making Sense and Making Do7 Family TroubleAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michele Friedner’s groundbreaking ethnography takes us on a rich, grounded journey with deaf young adults in Bangalore and shows us how they make their way through schools, vocational training, and religious worlds. From the opening scene to the last page, Friedner invites our appreciation of 'deaf gain' and how community, conviviality, kinship, value, and possibility are created." -- Faye Ginsburg * professor of anthropology, New York University *"In Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India Friedner has crafted an ethnographic monograph that is at once a compelling narrative with vivid descriptions, and a carefully researched and powerfully structured theoretical assertion of how deaf identities are multiple, global, and valuable." * Somatosphere *"Adept at signing herself, Michele Friedner is able to move between the worlds of deaf and hearing subjects, giving the work an ethnographic depth that might not be possible to achieve otherwise … This is a pioneering work and will, I am sure, soon become part of the disability studies syllabus in many Indian universities." * Indian Sociology *"Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India is a welcome addition to the still-sparse but growing cross-cultural collection of ethnographies addressing deafness and sign languages … Although primarily analyzing the lives and agency of deaf Indians, this book has much broader significance and is relevant for anyone exploring local responses to regional and global phenomena involving nongovernmental organizations, governmental agencies, religious organizations, multinational corporations, and multilevel marketing businesses." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"From home to the world, this book takes a nuanced view of classic questions of social stigma and value, while it also reorients the discourse on development in contemporary India." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Deaf Turns, Deaf Orientations, Deaf Development1. Orienting from (Bad) Family to (Good) Friends2. Converting to the Church of Deaf Sociality3. Circulation as Vocation4. Deaf Bodies, Corporate Bodies5. Enrolling Deafness in Multilevel Marketing BusinessesConclusion: India’s Deaf Futures/Reorienting the WorldAppendix: Key ConceptsNotesReferencesIndex
£28.80
MW - Rutgers University Press Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India
Trade Review"Michele Friedner’s groundbreaking ethnography takes us on a rich, grounded journey with deaf young adults in Bangalore and shows us how they make their way through schools, vocational training, and religious worlds. From the opening scene to the last page, Friedner invites our appreciation of 'deaf gain' and how community, conviviality, kinship, value, and possibility are created." -- Faye Ginsburg * professor of anthropology, New York University *"In Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India Friedner has crafted an ethnographic monograph that is at once a compelling narrative with vivid descriptions, and a carefully researched and powerfully structured theoretical assertion of how deaf identities are multiple, global, and valuable." * Somatosphere *"Adept at signing herself, Michele Friedner is able to move between the worlds of deaf and hearing subjects, giving the work an ethnographic depth that might not be possible to achieve otherwise … This is a pioneering work and will, I am sure, soon become part of the disability studies syllabus in many Indian universities." * Indian Sociology *"Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India is a welcome addition to the still-sparse but growing cross-cultural collection of ethnographies addressing deafness and sign languages … Although primarily analyzing the lives and agency of deaf Indians, this book has much broader significance and is relevant for anyone exploring local responses to regional and global phenomena involving nongovernmental organizations, governmental agencies, religious organizations, multinational corporations, and multilevel marketing businesses." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"From home to the world, this book takes a nuanced view of classic questions of social stigma and value, while it also reorients the discourse on development in contemporary India." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Deaf Turns, Deaf Orientations, Deaf Development1. Orienting from (Bad) Family to (Good) Friends2. Converting to the Church of Deaf Sociality3. Circulation as Vocation4. Deaf Bodies, Corporate Bodies5. Enrolling Deafness in Multilevel Marketing BusinessesConclusion: India’s Deaf Futures/Reorienting the WorldAppendix: Key ConceptsNotesReferencesIndex
£105.40
New York University Press The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
Book SynopsisDespite her disabilities, Helen Keller worked tirelessly for human rights and other political issues.Trade ReviewNielsen has compiled an outstanding collection, including many letters and photos that are being published for the first time. And even if you didn't grow up in Alabama, you may still marvel about how a little girl from Tuscumbia not only beat the odds but also blazed trails. * Dallas Morning News *The book's compactness, straightforward writing style, and revolutionary approach make The Radical Lives of Helen Keller invaluable for both teachers and scholars. Keller would be delighted that Nielsen allowed her her Scotch. * Journal of American History *If you have not read Kim Nielsen's The Radical Lifes of Helen Keller, then I highly recommend it. As a person who has labored through numerous thick volumes on the life of this remarkable deaf-blind woman, I am delighted with Nielsen's concise and refreshing scholarly work. She examines Keller's life from a Disability Studies perspective. The book is enjoyable and easy to read, and it captures Keller's political dimension with great detail, based on such additional-and sometimes chilling-sources as military intelligence and FBI files. Nielsen does great justice to both the subject of her book and to Disability Studies as an emerging field. * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *As a person who has labored through numerous thick volumes on the life of this remarkable deaf-blind woman, I am delighted with Nielsen’s concise and refreshing scholarly work. * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *Radical Lives fills out an important dimension of our cultural memory of the adult Helen Keller. * Ms. Magazine *Stunning final chapter. * The Yale Review *The Radical Lives of Helen Keller thus is an important, essential guide for any who would receive a well-rounded survey of her life. * The Midwest Book Review *Nielsen's book gives us a Helen Keller for our times. We meet a complex person whose politics defy our reductionist knowledge about her, whose lived experience makes for compelling reading. The Radical Lives of Helen Keller renders three-dimensional, perhaps for the first time, a figure who all too often is known to the world, but known in minimalist flatness merely as a symbol of overcoming disability. Nielsen shows us that there is so much more to Kellera political activist, theorist, and intellectual with unconventional, and, yes, even uncomfortable, opinions. She forthrightly explores these contradictions, in lucid, readable prose, to allow a very real version of Helen Keller to emerge from the darkness. -- Lennard J. Davis,author of Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the BodyConstitutes an important contribution to both the bibliography on Helen Keller and the advancement of disability studies. . . . Nielsen draws on a diverse and revealing body of source materials to give shape and dimension to key topics and arguments. . . . Nielsen does a particularly effective job of giving voice to Keller by drawing on letters, writings, and the statements of others; the direct quotes from Keller that she includesand there are a multitudeenliven the text and strengthen the reader’s sense of Keller as an intellectual and a person as well as of the times which she lived. This sophisticated use of sources and quotes yields a strong, riveting narrative. * Sign Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline Introduction 1 I Do Not Like This World As It Is: 1900-1924 2 The Call of the Sightless: 1924-1937 3 Manna in My Desert Places: 1937-1948 4 I Will Not Allow Polly to Climb a Pyramid: 1948-1968 5 One of the Least Free People on Earth: The Making and Remaking of Helen Keller Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£55.25
New York University Press The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
Book SynopsisDespite her disabilities, Helen Keller worked tirelessly for human rights and other political issues.Trade ReviewNielsen has compiled an outstanding collection, including many letters and photos that are being published for the first time. And even if you didn't grow up in Alabama, you may still marvel about how a little girl from Tuscumbia not only beat the odds but also blazed trails. * Dallas Morning News *The book's compactness, straightforward writing style, and revolutionary approach make The Radical Lives of Helen Keller invaluable for both teachers and scholars. Keller would be delighted that Nielsen allowed her her Scotch. * Journal of American History *If you have not read Kim Nielsen's The Radical Lifes of Helen Keller, then I highly recommend it. As a person who has labored through numerous thick volumes on the life of this remarkable deaf-blind woman, I am delighted with Nielsen's concise and refreshing scholarly work. She examines Keller's life from a Disability Studies perspective. The book is enjoyable and easy to read, and it captures Keller's political dimension with great detail, based on such additional-and sometimes chilling-sources as military intelligence and FBI files. Nielsen does great justice to both the subject of her book and to Disability Studies as an emerging field. * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *As a person who has labored through numerous thick volumes on the life of this remarkable deaf-blind woman, I am delighted with Nielsen’s concise and refreshing scholarly work. * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *Radical Lives fills out an important dimension of our cultural memory of the adult Helen Keller. * Ms. Magazine *Stunning final chapter. * The Yale Review *The Radical Lives of Helen Keller thus is an important, essential guide for any who would receive a well-rounded survey of her life. * The Midwest Book Review *Nielsen's book gives us a Helen Keller for our times. We meet a complex person whose politics defy our reductionist knowledge about her, whose lived experience makes for compelling reading. The Radical Lives of Helen Keller renders three-dimensional, perhaps for the first time, a figure who all too often is known to the world, but known in minimalist flatness merely as a symbol of overcoming disability. Nielsen shows us that there is so much more to Kellera political activist, theorist, and intellectual with unconventional, and, yes, even uncomfortable, opinions. She forthrightly explores these contradictions, in lucid, readable prose, to allow a very real version of Helen Keller to emerge from the darkness. -- Lennard J. Davis,author of Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the BodyConstitutes an important contribution to both the bibliography on Helen Keller and the advancement of disability studies. . . . Nielsen draws on a diverse and revealing body of source materials to give shape and dimension to key topics and arguments. . . . Nielsen does a particularly effective job of giving voice to Keller by drawing on letters, writings, and the statements of others; the direct quotes from Keller that she includesand there are a multitudeenliven the text and strengthen the reader’s sense of Keller as an intellectual and a person as well as of the times which she lived. This sophisticated use of sources and quotes yields a strong, riveting narrative. * Sign Language Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline Introduction 1 I Do Not Like This World As It Is: 1900-1924 2 The Call of the Sightless: 1924-1937 3 Manna in My Desert Places: 1937-1948 4 I Will Not Allow Polly to Climb a Pyramid: 1948-1968 5 One of the Least Free People on Earth: The Making and Remaking of Helen Keller Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£19.94
New York University Press Mental Retardation in America A Historical Reader
Book SynopsisA collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.Trade Review"Illuminates the history of mental retardation in America, a subject that has largely been ignored by scholars. This volume goes far beyond the history of institutional care, and covers such subjects as the role of families, changes in concepts of retardation and educational theory, and the role of the state. Mental Retardation in America will contribute toward a new understanding of the subject and serve as a stimulus to further research." -- Gerald N. Grob,Rutgers University"Strongly recommended" * Library Journal *"The book will be of value to scholars concerned with the newly emerging history of disability." * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *"This is a highly readable and well-edited historical anthology, a wide-ranging collection that deals with mental retardation over two centuries. The book deserves perusal by anyone interested in mental retardation. The plot is powerful, and the questions profound." * New England Journal of Medicine *"Interesting collection of pieces." * Gainesville Sun *
£59.50
New York University Press Mental Retardation in America A Historical
Book SynopsisA collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.Trade Review"Illuminates the history of mental retardation in America, a subject that has largely been ignored by scholars. This volume goes far beyond the history of institutional care, and covers such subjects as the role of families, changes in concepts of retardation and educational theory, and the role of the state. Mental Retardation in America will contribute toward a new understanding of the subject and serve as a stimulus to further research." -- Gerald N. Grob,Rutgers University"Strongly recommended" * Library Journal *"The book will be of value to scholars concerned with the newly emerging history of disability." * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *"This is a highly readable and well-edited historical anthology, a wide-ranging collection that deals with mental retardation over two centuries. The book deserves perusal by anyone interested in mental retardation. The plot is powerful, and the questions profound." * New England Journal of Medicine *"Interesting collection of pieces." * Gainesville Sun *
£23.74
New York University Press Signs of Resistance American Deaf Cultural
Book SynopsisThe author demonstrates that in 19th and 20th centuries and contrary to popular belief, the Deaf community defended its use of sign language as a distinctive form of communication, thus forming a collective Deaf consciousness, identity, and political organization.Trade Review"Forcefully and gracefully narrates Deaf people's dramatic struggle against hearing oppression in the early twentieth century. Incorporating new data from archival research and community interviews, Burch applies tools of social analysis to challenge earlier interpretations that underestimated Deaf people's success in preserving their core values. The resulting study is fascinating and important to students of American social history and disability." -- John Van Cleve,Professor of History, Gallaudet University"Signs of Resistance expands our thinking not only on deaf life and disability studies, but on our understanding of the history of this nation. Dr. Burch has gone to great lengths to gather the opinion of ‘the deaf themselves' through original, revealing research." -- I. King Jordan,President, Gallaudet University"Burch's rich and well-researched chronicle of the U.S. Deaf community's efforts to claim and shape their full participation in public life between 1900 and 1942 reminds historians of the many forms debates have taken in U.S. history regarding how a proper citizen should look, act, and speak." * Reviews in American History *"Burch offers insightful comparisons. Her book is important to the fields of Deaf studies and disability studies, but it will appeal to social historians as well." * Journal of American History *Table of Contents1 The Irony of Acculturation2 Visibly Different: Sign Language and the Deaf Community3 The Extended Family: Associations of the Deaf4 Working Identities: Labor Issues 5 The Full Court Press: Legal Issues Conclusion: The Irony of Acculturation, Continued
£22.79
Syracuse University Press Psychiatric Slavery
Book SynopsisMillions of Americans, diagnosed mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go unpunished for crimes they commit, and are supported by the state - not because they are sick but because they are unproductive and unwanted. This study re-examines such interventions
£12.71
University of Minnesota Press Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Contingent Figure is a book for the very best readers. Its meditation on chronic pain reimagines formalism’s intimate attention to bodily distress, in turn impelling queer theory to reckon with how incapacity feels as opposed to just the uses to which it is put politically. Poetic, incisive, and continually surprising, Contingent Figure is one of a kind."—Elizabeth Freeman, author of Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century "To learn the meaning of memory in the ruins of love, that is Michael D. Snediker's dare. The pages on Melville are harrowing and majestic, a wildly beautiful summons to throw ourselves into the visceral depths. Contingent Figure pushed me to experience both the deepest philosophy and the most obstinate invitation to the tremors of the flesh."—Colin Dayan, author of Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir "Contingent Figure provides a timely defense, as well as a magisterial illustration, of what a literary reading of literary texts can achieve."—ALH Online Review Table of ContentsContentsPreface: CrasherIntroduction: “So Much for My Figurative Self”; or, Aesthetic Duress (Plein-Air, in Parts)1. Melville’s Iron Crown of Lombardy: Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb2. Queer Philology and Chronic Pain 3. “The Vision – pondered long”: Chronic Pain and the Materiality of Figuration 4. Inveterate Pagoda: Late James, Ongoingness, and the Figure of Hurt 5. Is the Rectangle a Grave? Floating Attention, Betweenness in Relief6. Weaver’s Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£75.65
Duke University Press Sex and Disability
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.Trade Review"This is a big collection, literally, politically, and theoretically. With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, Sex and Disability will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project."—Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times“As a political intellectual project, Sex and Disability aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” -- Alexis Shotwell * Signs *“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.” -- Jacob Miller * Cyberhetoric *“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.” -- S. E. Smith * Global Comment *“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that "sex and disability" do in fact come together.... Recommended.” -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.” -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *“Sex and Disability is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.” -- Bruce Henderson * Journal of Sex Research *“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.” -- Kelly Fritsch * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.” -- Cynthia Barounis * symploke *“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.” -- Nina Mackert * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1 Part I: Access 1 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People / Tobin Siebers 37 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability / Russell Shuttleworth 54 3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of "Voluntary" Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled / Michel Desjardins 69 Part II: Histories 4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace / Michelle Jarman 89 5. "That Cruel Spectacle": The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell 108 6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity / Michael Davidson 123 7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s / David Serlin 145 Part III: Spaces 8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165 9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson 183 10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility" / Chris Bell 208 Part IV: Lives 11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky / Riva Lehrer 231 12. Fingered / Lezlie Frye 256 13. Sex as "Spock": Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative / Rachel Groner 263 Part V: Desires 14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive / Anna Mollow 285 15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability / Lennard J. Davis 313 16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism / Alison Kafer 331 17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing / Kristen Harmon 355 Works Cited 373 Contributors 393 Index 399
£89.10
Duke University Press The Minor Gesture
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning develops the concept of the minor gesture to rethink common assumptions about human agency, the ways we experience the everyday world, and the possibilities for new political praxis.Trade Review"Manning emphasizes a kind of affect that brings to the fore a feeling of being a part of a larger environment, something relational, something that helps people to see themselves as part of something bigger." -- Karen Simecek * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"The Minor Gesture is a fascinating and intellectually challenging book that successfully problematises common-sense (neurotypical) understandings of perception, action and embodiment. In doing so it politicises mundane everyday experience and calls for sustained critique of normatively framed lifeworlds." -- Ben Simmons * Disability & Society *"A wide-ranging and carefully argued book. . . . Now that we know just how much mental activity escapes our conscious awareness and defies standard and dialectical accounts of knowledge, reason, and agency, efforts like Manning’s to better understand neurodiversity and to mobilize that understanding for research-creation and political activism alike are invaluable." -- Eugene W. Holland * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: In a Minor Key 1 1. Against Method 26 2. Artfulness: Emergent Collectives and Processes of Individuation 46 3. Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment 64 4. Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of Form 86 5. Choreographing the Political 111 6. Carrying the Feeling 131 7. In the Act: The Shape of Precarity 165 8. What a Body Can Do: A Conversation with Arno Boehler 189 Postscript: Affirmation without Credit 201 Notes 233 References 261 Index 269
£76.50
Duke University Press Curative Violence Rehabilitating Disability
Book SynopsisTaking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.Trade Review"In this brilliant and necessary book, Eunjung Kim analyzes the deployment of illness and disability in modern Korea, carefully tracing how cure and rehabilitation are used in the service of the nation. Kim's concepts of "curative violence" and "cure by proxy" describe the violent effects of cure and rehabilitation broadly defined, revealing the integral and mutually constitutive role of gender, disability, and sexuality norms in cure ideology and practices. From start to finish, Curative Violence is an exceptional work of transnational feminist disability studies scholarship, and is essential reading not only for those interested in disability studies, but also for anyone studying transnational feminist theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexual violence, and women's and gender studies more broadly." * 2017 Alison Piepmeier Award Committee *"Kim interrogates the intersections of disability, illness, gender, sexuality, and cure by analyzing Korean cultural representations of disability from the past century. She makes a compelling case for understanding cure as 'based on complicated social and familial negotiations that occur beyond an individual’s desire or volition.' . . . The cultural representations Kim analyzes are sweeping in their scope, and she narrates them with sensitivity and a theoretical rigour that lays bare societal divisions and power hierarchies." -- Celeste L. Arrington * Pacific Affairs *"[Kim's] approach proves powerful and convincing, drawing upon additional source materials through film and documentary in the post-colonial era. . . . She calls not just for a re-envisioning of the medical community, but an entirely different South Korean society, one distinct from the hyper-capitalist form emerging out of the Korean War." -- John P. DiMoia * Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Curative Violence, both its structure and content, is written in an approachable manner, which makes it a must-read for undergraduate students and established scholars alike." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Beautifully written and critically engaging, Curative Violence is well organized and supported, drawing from approaches in gender, sexuality, disability, and postcolonial studies in its analysis of visual media, legal codes, and print texts. . . . It is also deeply unsettling, as it is intended, so that we remain neither complacent nor complicit." -- Sonja M. Kim * Korean Studies *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Groundbreaking." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Kim’s contribution is unique in English-language Korean studies not just because she attends to issues of disability and ableism, but also because she deftly interweaves feminist and queer concerns into her inquiry into the political and cultural effects of disability in Korea." -- Laura C. Nelson * Cross-Currents *“Eunjung Kim’s work shines in the brilliance of its analysis. Highly recommended for scholars working at the intersections of disability studies, modern Korean cultural history, and gender studies.” -- Wei Yu Wayne Tan * Acta Koreana *“Curative Violence is an exceptional accomplishment in Korean studies, disability studies, and the history of East Asian medicine. It also stands out as a product of sincere dedication by those who have struggled to achieve sustainable and nonviolent living conditions for everyone in Korean society.” -- Soyoung Suh * Journal of Asian Studies *"Kim’s groundbreaking study of disability and rehabilitation in Korean society expands our horizon of disability in Korean culture and will stimulate future debate and exploration." -- Shu Wan * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist views and in-depth archival and narrative analysis. . . . Brilliantly rearticulates what might have been plainly regarded or already established by deploying imaginative thinking tools and visual images. . . . A crucial addition to Korean studies." -- Jesook Song * Journal of Korean Studies *"Through her wide-ranging analysis that includes novels, folktales, films, media accounts, historical narratives, social policies, and disability activism, Kim has argued for ways to rethink 'cure.' . . . Phenomenal in provoking us to reflect." -- Nirmala Erevelles * Feminist Formations *"In the breadth of legal, literary, filmic, social, and cultural events it analyzes, Curative Violence demonstrates a remarkable commitment to offering grounds for shared political action and knowledge production. The book honors the US- and South Korea–based activist and academic productions that came before it and will be an inspiring guide for more scholarship to come on the interstices of disability studies, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonialism and imperialism studies, East Asian and American studies, and literary and cultural studies." -- Jeong Eun Annabel We * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1 1. Unmothering Disability 42 2. Cure by Proxy 81 3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122 4. Uninhabiting Family 166 5. Curing Virginity 197 Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 285
£80.10
Duke University Press Curative Violence Rehabilitating Disability
Book SynopsisTaking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.Trade Review"In this brilliant and necessary book, Eunjung Kim analyzes the deployment of illness and disability in modern Korea, carefully tracing how cure and rehabilitation are used in the service of the nation. Kim's concepts of "curative violence" and "cure by proxy" describe the violent effects of cure and rehabilitation broadly defined, revealing the integral and mutually constitutive role of gender, disability, and sexuality norms in cure ideology and practices. From start to finish, Curative Violence is an exceptional work of transnational feminist disability studies scholarship, and is essential reading not only for those interested in disability studies, but also for anyone studying transnational feminist theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexual violence, and women's and gender studies more broadly." * 2017 Alison Piepmeier Award Committee *"Kim interrogates the intersections of disability, illness, gender, sexuality, and cure by analyzing Korean cultural representations of disability from the past century. She makes a compelling case for understanding cure as 'based on complicated social and familial negotiations that occur beyond an individual’s desire or volition.' . . . The cultural representations Kim analyzes are sweeping in their scope, and she narrates them with sensitivity and a theoretical rigour that lays bare societal divisions and power hierarchies." -- Celeste L. Arrington * Pacific Affairs *"[Kim's] approach proves powerful and convincing, drawing upon additional source materials through film and documentary in the post-colonial era. . . . She calls not just for a re-envisioning of the medical community, but an entirely different South Korean society, one distinct from the hyper-capitalist form emerging out of the Korean War." -- John P. DiMoia * Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Curative Violence, both its structure and content, is written in an approachable manner, which makes it a must-read for undergraduate students and established scholars alike." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Beautifully written and critically engaging, Curative Violence is well organized and supported, drawing from approaches in gender, sexuality, disability, and postcolonial studies in its analysis of visual media, legal codes, and print texts. . . . It is also deeply unsettling, as it is intended, so that we remain neither complacent nor complicit." -- Sonja M. Kim * Korean Studies *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Groundbreaking." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Kim’s contribution is unique in English-language Korean studies not just because she attends to issues of disability and ableism, but also because she deftly interweaves feminist and queer concerns into her inquiry into the political and cultural effects of disability in Korea." -- Laura C. Nelson * Cross-Currents *“Eunjung Kim’s work shines in the brilliance of its analysis. Highly recommended for scholars working at the intersections of disability studies, modern Korean cultural history, and gender studies.” -- Wei Yu Wayne Tan * Acta Koreana *“Curative Violence is an exceptional accomplishment in Korean studies, disability studies, and the history of East Asian medicine. It also stands out as a product of sincere dedication by those who have struggled to achieve sustainable and nonviolent living conditions for everyone in Korean society.” -- Soyoung Suh * Journal of Asian Studies *"Kim’s groundbreaking study of disability and rehabilitation in Korean society expands our horizon of disability in Korean culture and will stimulate future debate and exploration." -- Shu Wan * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist views and in-depth archival and narrative analysis. . . . Brilliantly rearticulates what might have been plainly regarded or already established by deploying imaginative thinking tools and visual images. . . . A crucial addition to Korean studies." -- Jesook Song * Journal of Korean Studies *"Through her wide-ranging analysis that includes novels, folktales, films, media accounts, historical narratives, social policies, and disability activism, Kim has argued for ways to rethink 'cure.' . . . Phenomenal in provoking us to reflect." -- Nirmala Erevelles * Feminist Formations *"In the breadth of legal, literary, filmic, social, and cultural events it analyzes, Curative Violence demonstrates a remarkable commitment to offering grounds for shared political action and knowledge production. The book honors the US- and South Korea–based activist and academic productions that came before it and will be an inspiring guide for more scholarship to come on the interstices of disability studies, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonialism and imperialism studies, East Asian and American studies, and literary and cultural studies." -- Jeong Eun Annabel We * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1 1. Unmothering Disability 42 2. Cure by Proxy 81 3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122 4. Uninhabiting Family 166 5. Curing Virginity 197 Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Authoring Autism On Rhetoric and Neurological
Book SynopsisChallenging the academic and cultural stereotypes that do not acknowledge the rhetorical capabilities of autistic people, M. Remi Yergeau shows how autistics both embrace and reject the rhetorical, thereby queering the lines of rhetoric, humanity, agency, and the very essence of rhetoric itself.Trade Review"Authoring Autism provides many thought-provoking insights for disability scholars. . . . Melanie Yergeau’s double perspective as a rhetorician and autistic activist that makes Authoring Autism valuable to a larger audience." -- Marion Schmidt * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A new exploration—a work that defines, defies, and defiles the boundaries of rhetorical regimes of neurological oppression. . . . An intervention, a disruption, an eruption." -- Anna Williams * Disability & Society *"Deftly integrates rich theoretical analysis with moments of humor, irony, autoethnography (autie-ethnography), and poetic insight. Authoring Autism will be appropriate for graduate courses in rhetorical theory, whether feminist, queer, disability, posthuman, material, or embodied. It is essential reading for anyone who does rhetorical theory, and it will transform not only how we think about who a rhetor can be, but also what rhetoric should be." -- Jordynn Jack * Rhetoric Review *"A closely argued, elegantly performed, and even joyfully humorous work of critical emancipatory scholarship. Yergeau carefully intertwines lived experience, autistic memoir, clinical discourse, and humanities theory (particularly rhetorical studies, narrative theory, disability studies, and queer theory) to achieve a highly insightful hybrid discourse. In the process, she breaks down binaries and opens new possibilities of form for scholarly invention and cultural creation. . . . An excellent book and a major contribution." -- Bradley Lewis * Journal of Medical Humanities *"To oppose a medicalized flattening of autism to a passive embodiment of seemingly autonomic dysfunction, Yergeau makes a powerful case for 'autism’s rhetorical potentials' grounded in the resilient ways that autistic people self-consciously 'story' their desires for better, more inclusive futures. . . . Autistic people, Yergeau reminds us, have always been rhetorical beings. Only by redefining the very definitions and conventions of rhetoric can we begin to attend to these autistic narratives on their own terms." -- Travis Chi Wing Lau * Los Angeles Review of Books *"I need to (want to) read it several times in order to process the many profound, challenging, and delightful layers of [Yergeau's] rhetoric on rich display. . . . Authoring Autism is a masterclass in simultaneously claiming and dismantling rhetoric." -- Tara Wood * College Composition and Communication *"Authoring Autism doesn’t just show us what the neuroqueer can offer rhetoric, what the embodied experience of autistic people have to teach us of rhetoric, it resists these clinical gazes for us to study and instead urges readers to consider their own rhetoricity. How it might be neuroqueered—expanded, warped, and blown up. Yergeau wishes for us to embrace a future rhetoric full of tics and stims, and if this book is a glimpse of that future, it’s one every rhetorician should be advocating for." -- Jay McClintick * Enculturation *"Authoring Autism is a revolutionary book, a neuroqueer revelation." -- Michael Bérubé * Public Books *"Yergeau’s book is a welcome history of autism and critique of contemporary perceptions and 'treatments' of it. It is an insightful, often refreshingly irreverent argument that should be read by professors, administrators, and students." -- Patricia A. Dunn * College English *"Yergeau stocks wicked humor, manifesto-like passion, historical knowledge, a hard-hitting combination of rhetorical tightness and raw honesty, and an important bread crumb trail of autobiography in her authorial quiver." -- Deborah Jenson * American Literature *“Yergeau’s much-needed scholarship and activism crack open academic space to make room for those of us who do not fit the academy’s mandates for logic and legibility. Sketching new terrains of thought, Authoring Autism gestures toward vibrant words, images, and textures that sit with us, and we feel their weight.” -- Clare Mullaney * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Involution 1 1. Intention 35 2. Intervention 89 3. Invitation 135 4. Invention 175 Epilogue. Indexicality 207 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 289
£80.10
Fordham University Press Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh
Book SynopsisOffers philosophical reflection worked through spiritual and religious values, then turned toward somatic practice, for living amidst the affective dynamics of the city street.Trade Review"Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh makes a unique, creative, and timely contribution to an area of great interest in the study of religion and theology." -- -Mayra Rivera Harvard Divinity School "A powerful, poignant witness from an author who lives with and works through the lens of disability, Professor Betcher finds through such a perspective hopeful practices for 21st century urban living. This rich, poetic text pleading for "corporeal generosity" is profoundly within the Christian incarnational tradition while commending a radical practice of obligation stemming from Spirit as "prosthesis," as an aid to neighbor love. I recommend this book as an outstanding example of constructive theology to move us from merely global to planetary citizens, supporting all of life in its diversity, deviancy, and limitation, as well as rejoicing in its joys and delights." -- -Sallie McFague Distinguished Theologian in Residence, Vancouver School of Theology, and Professor of Theology Emerita, Vanderbilt University. "In this creative book, Sharon Betcher presents a strong case that theology does not have to end as dominant notions of the divine shatter in the life-or-death struggles of our increasingly intertwined lives. In fact,theology begins again where people of various faiths and of little faith begin to identify the work of the Spirit in their midst. That Spirit emerges from the complex intersections of our vulnerable lives, rather than descending from above, is good news to all those of us who are "weary and are carrying heavy burdens" (Matt 11:28)." -- -Joerg Rieger Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University " ... A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience." -- -Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union "Sharon Betcher's cosmopolis of 'corporeal generosity' emits an eerie beauty. Its theopoetics for seculars does not exclude any theology worth practicing but reads Spirit in the cracks of bodies, cities, politics, wisdoms. In the brilliance of this "crip/tography" the sites of our acute vulnerability signal possibilities that we do not want to miss-whatever our discipline or art, our religion or irreligion." -- -Catherine Keller Drew UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Crip/tography 2. "Fearful Symmetry": Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants 4. In the Ruin of God 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh 6. "Take My Yoga Upon You" (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Fordham University Press The Historical Uncanny Disability Ethnicity and
Book SynopsisComparative study of the commemoration of the Nazi euthanasia program in Germany and the memory of Fascism and the Nazi occupation in and around Trieste. Explains why these memories have been marginalized from the discourse on the Holocaust and makes a case for why they are essential to grapple with.Trade Review"...an ambitious and highly engaging work." -- -Sarah Clift University of King's College "Susanne Knittel's study of 'disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory' is an extraordinarily original addition to the contemporary literature of Holocaust memory studies. In her focus on previously under-examined sites of memory (such as those commemorating the Nazis' mass-murder of the disabled) and under-studied dimensions of the Holocaust (such as perpetrators 'from Grafeneck to the Risiera'), Knittel's work not only expands the field but exemplifies the best, most profound new work in Holocaust memory studies I have seen in the last several years. It is absolutely essential reading." -- -James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge "'The Historical Uncanny' draws on literary, artistic, and other realms in a study of memorials for the Nazi euthanasia program against the mentally ill and disabled, and for the persecution of Jews, Croats, and Slovenes in and near Trieste." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Susanne Knittel's book is beautifully written and original. It will inspire a necessary and overdue dialogue between Holocaust studies, memory studies, and disability studies." -- -Michael Rothberg author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization "The Historical Uncanny starts with the fact that it was the same group of German men who organized, supervised, and carried out the killing of the mentally ill and disabled in Grafeneck in 1940 and the deportation and killing of Jews and partisans at the Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste in 1943. The multi-directionality of perpetrator history on the killing fields across Europe generates new insights into the neglected links between eugenics, the Holocaust, and the role of Italian colonialism toward Slovenians and Croats. Past and present of two seemingly very different sites are woven together in illuminating readings of archival research, memorial sites and practices, exhibitions, television series, and literary texts. An exceptionally rich study in perpetrator history and nationally distinct memory politics in today's Europe." -- -Andreas Huyssen Columbia University "The Historical Uncanny is a compelling and highly original study of two interlinked, 'asymmetrical' sites of European history and memory: Grafeneck and Trieste, Germany and Italy, disability and race, euthanasia, ethnic persecution and genocide. Knittel builds on and challenges some of the most important recent insights into Holocaust memory, weaving around her two case studies a fascinating web of 'multidirectional' connections, biographical, spatial, representational and conceptual." -- -Robert S.C. Gordon University of Cambridge, author of The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dedication Introduction Part I 1. Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck and the Struggle for Memory 2. Bridging the Silence, Part I: The Disabled Enabler 3. Bridging the Silence, Part II: The Vicarious Witness Intermezzo 4. Lethal Trajectories: Perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera Part II 5. Black Holes and Revelations: The Risiera, the Foibe, and the Making of an "Italian Tragedy" 6. A Severed Branch: The Memory of Fascism on Stage and Screen 7. Bridging the Silence, Part III: Trieste and the Language of Belonging Conclusion Bibliography
£45.00
Fordham University Press Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects Fractured
Book SynopsisDraws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.Trade Review"Lana Lin's Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a 'subjectivity of survival.' She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lin's work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become." -- -Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at The University of ChicagoTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and the Cancerous Object Psychoanalysis and Death Key Psychoanalytic Concepts Psychic Life of Objects Methodologies: Psychoanalysis and Pathography Overview of Chapters I PROSTHETIC OBJECTS: ON SIGMUND FREUD'S AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENTS The Prosthetic Contest Between Human and Nonhuman The Prosthetic Condition as Technological Predicament The Prosthetic as Psychic Object A Narcoanalysis of Freud's Illness Cancer as Not-Death His Living Prostheses II KEEN FOR THE FIRST OBJECT: A KLEINIAN READING OF AUDRE LORDE'S LIFE WRITING The Breast as Psychic Object The Breast as Political Object Objectification and Object Relations Orality: Creation and Destruction, Parts and Wholes The Breast as Fetish Object Mourning the Lost Object III OBJECT-LOVE IN THE LATER WRITINGS OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK A Public Discourse of Love Love as Comic Instruction Sedgwick's Forms of Love Object-Use, Object-Love Bad Pedagogy/Good Pedagogy "Let Another Finish the Poem ..." IV REPARATIVE OBJECTS IN THE FREUDIAN ARCHIVES The Museum as Creative Construction Remedy and Re-animation at the Freud Museum, London The Life and Death of Objects Melancholia and Reparation at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Fetishism of the Lost Object CONCLUSION: LAST OBJECTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£78.30
Fordham University Press Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Book SynopsisDraws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.Trade Review"Lana Lin's Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a 'subjectivity of survival.' She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lin's work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become." -- -Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at The University of ChicagoTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and the Cancerous Object Psychoanalysis and Death Key Psychoanalytic Concepts Psychic Life of Objects Methodologies: Psychoanalysis and Pathography Overview of Chapters I PROSTHETIC OBJECTS: ON SIGMUND FREUD'S AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENTS The Prosthetic Contest Between Human and Nonhuman The Prosthetic Condition as Technological Predicament The Prosthetic as Psychic Object A Narcoanalysis of Freud's Illness Cancer as Not-Death His Living Prostheses II KEEN FOR THE FIRST OBJECT: A KLEINIAN READING OF AUDRE LORDE'S LIFE WRITING The Breast as Psychic Object The Breast as Political Object Objectification and Object Relations Orality: Creation and Destruction, Parts and Wholes The Breast as Fetish Object Mourning the Lost Object III OBJECT-LOVE IN THE LATER WRITINGS OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK A Public Discourse of Love Love as Comic Instruction Sedgwick's Forms of Love Object-Use, Object-Love Bad Pedagogy/Good Pedagogy "Let Another Finish the Poem ..." IV REPARATIVE OBJECTS IN THE FREUDIAN ARCHIVES The Museum as Creative Construction Remedy and Re-animation at the Freud Museum, London The Life and Death of Objects Melancholia and Reparation at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Fetishism of the Lost Object CONCLUSION: LAST OBJECTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£23.39
CABI Publishing Leisure Education Community Development and
Book SynopsisThis book is a result of an output of a Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) to examine the role of leisure and education for leisure activities among people with special needs living in the community, and requiring social or health services outside hospital. It provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the role of leisure education for community development with a special emphasis on special populations. It will also serve the reader as a foundation for developing models and programmes for leisure education within community settings.Table of Contents1: Educating the Community for Developmental Opportunities in Leisure, Jay Shivers, University of Connecticut, USA 2: Leisure Education, Serious Leisure and Community Development, Robert A Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada 3: Community Development Through Leisure Education: Conceptual Approaches, Atara Sivan 4: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and the Community Development: Toward a Systematic and Holistic Coping and Resilient Model for the Third Millennium, Joseph Levy, York University, Ontario, Canada 5: Mobility for Action - Advocacy and Empowerment for the Right of Leisure Play and Recreation, Arnold H Grossman, New York University, USA 6: Global Edutainment: The Role of Leisure Education for Community Development, Wolfgang Nahrstedt, University of Bielefeld, Germany 7: Community Vision and Resources: Commitment, Capacity and Collective Effort, Arnold H Grossman 8: Leisure Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Jay Shivers 9: The Role of Leisure Counselling for Special Populations in Facilitating Successful Adjustment to Life in the Community, Michael J Leitner, California State University, USA 10: Serious Leisure for People with Disabilities, Robert A Stebbins 11: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and Populations with Special Needs, Atara Sivan 12: Active Living for People with Disabilities: Towards the Concept of Equality of Well-Being and Human Authenticity, Joseph Levy 13: Community Empowerment, Poverty and Leisure Education, Elisheva Sadan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 14: Establishing a Model for the Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs, Sam Raz, Jerusalem, Israel 15: Youth at Risk and Leisure Education, Hillel Ruskin 16: Practical Approaches to Leisure Education for the Elderly, Debra Markus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 17: Concluding Remarks, Atara Sivan and Hillel Ruskin
£86.94
Emerald Publishing Limited Disability and Community 6 Research in Social
Book SynopsisExamines an array of issues related to disability and community. This title also examines a range of social institutions and practices such as education, employment, and cultural venues and the extent to which and how they include people with disabilities in the workings of these institutions.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: Disability and Community. Bowling together: Foundations of Community among Youth with Disabilities. The Student Body: The Intersection of Spatial Design, Architecture, and Cultural Policy in University Communities. Families of Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities: A Description of their Community Interaction. Building Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Community using a Disability Studies Framework of Empowerment. Communities of Prosthesis Users and Possibilities for Personal Innovation. Creating a Village to Raise a Child: Constructing Community in Families of Children with Disabilities. Crossing Borders, Pushing Boundaries: Disabled Refugees' Experiences of Community and Community Participation in the USA. The Quest for Community: Intellectual Disability and the Shifting meaning of Community in Activism. Same Mandate, Changing Concepts of Community: An Analysis of Bills to Mandate Medicaid Coverage of Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports (1997–2010). The Contested meaning of “Community” in Discourses of Deinstitutionalization and Community Living in the Field of Developmental Disability. Disability and the Neoliberal Indian State: The Perils of Community Participation. About the Authors. Disability and Community. Research in Social Science and Disability. Research in Social Science and Disability. Copyright page.
£110.99
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. vePlace of Their Own Creating the Deaf Community
Book SynopsisUsing original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of Deaf Americans.
£17.50
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Dancing Without Music
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£18.58
