Disability: social aspects Books
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
Book Synopsis
£18.58
John Wiley & Sons Inc Disability in Higher Education
Book SynopsisCreate campuses inclusive and supportive of disabled students, staff, and faculty Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach examines how disability is conceptualized in higher education and ways in which students, faculty, and staff with disabilities are viewed and served on college campuses. Drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks, research, and experience creating inclusive campuses, this text offers a new framework for understanding disability using a social justice lens. Many institutions focus solely on legal access and accommodation, enabling a system of exclusion and oppression. However, using principles of universal design, social justice, and other inclusive practices, campus environments can be transformed into more inclusive and equitable settings for all constituents. The authors consider the experiences of students, faculty, and staff with disabilities and offer strategies for addressing ableism within a variety of settings, includingTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii About the Authors xxv Introduction: A Social Justice Foundation 1 Part One: Foundational Concepts 9 1 A History of Disability in Higher Education 11 Deaf Education 13 Influence of War Veterans 23 Disability Activism 33 Conclusion 45 Discussion Questions 46 Appendix: Significant Moments in the History of Disability in the United States 46 2 Disability Models 54 Established Models 55 Critical Approaches to Disability 66 Social Justice (Ableist or Disability Oppression) Model 71 Emerging Models 76 Conclusion 78 Discussion Questions 80 Appendix: Summary of Disability Models 81 3 Disability, Law, and Education in the United States 91 Historical Overview 92 Legislative Implications 101 Pending and Future Legal Issues 110 Conclusion 120 Discussion Questions 120 4 Dimensions of Impairment and Disability 122 Creating Categories and Labels 123 Categorizing Impairment 125 Impairments Commonly and Increasingly Seen in College Populations 131 Conclusion 139 Discussion Questions 139 Part Two: Population-Specific Experiences 141 5 Disability Identity Development and Multiple Aspects of Identity 143 Multiple and Intersecting Social Identities 144 Disability Identity Development in College Students 145 Self-Identification as Disabled 155 Social Identities 157 Areas for Future Research 168 Implications for Higher Education 169 Conclusion 172 Discussion Questions 173 6 Student Populations 174 Adult Learners 176 Community College Students 177 Transfer Students 180 English Language Learners and English as an Additional Language 181 First-Generation Students 182 International Students 183 Parenting Students 184 Student Athletes 186 Students of Size 187 Undocumented Students 189 Veterans 191 Favorite Hobbies, Yappy Dogs, and Now What? 193 Conclusion 195 Discussion Questions 196 7 Faculty and Staff with Disabilities 197 Perspectives on Disabled Faculty and Staff 199 Barriers That Disabled Faculty and Staff Face in Higher Education 204 Experiences of Disabled Staff and Faculty 209 Creating an Inclusive Climate 214 Conclusion 220 Discussion Questions 221 Part Three: Environmental Issues 223 8 The Campus Environment 225 Physical Environment 226 Organizational Environment 227 The Human Aggregate 230 Social Construction of Disability 237 Creating Campus Environments That Support Students with Impairments 240 Creating a Socially Just Campus Environment 249 Conclusion 251 Discussion Questions 251 9 The Campus Climate 253 Definition of Climate 254 The Campus-Based Experiences of Impaired Students 255 The Impact of Climate on Disabled Students 260 Studying Campus Climate 263 Transforming the Campus Climate 268 Conclusion 272 Discussion Questions 273 10 Universal Design 274 Principles of Universal Design 275 The Evolution From Barrier-Free Design to Universal Design 277 Application of Universal Design in Higher Education 280 Universal Design in Instruction 284 Critiques of Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning 295 Universal Design and Social Justice 298 Resources for Additional Information 300 Conclusion 301 Discussion Questions 302 11 Assistive and Learning Technology 303 History of Assistive Technology 304 Accessible, Adaptive, and Universally Designed Technology 305 Guidelines for Accessible Design 308 Technology as an Accommodation 312 Barriers and Inaccessible Technology 313 Legal Requirements for Technology and Postsecondary Education 316 Eight Steps to Creating an Accessible Campus Technology Culture 319 Conclusion 322 Discussion Questions 323 12 Classroom Instructional Interventions 324 Current Practice 325 Effective Classroom Practices 331 Practices of Specific Academic Disciplines 337 Alternative Instructional Approaches 343 Conclusion 350 Discussion Questions 351 Part Four: Serving Students 353 13 Disability Resource Offices 355 Historical Overview of Disability Resources 356 Disability Resources Today 357 Core Activities of Disability Resource Offices 363 Considerations for the Future of Disability Resources 379 Conclusion 380 Discussion Questions 381 14 Student Affairs 382 Persistence, Retention, and Graduation of Students with Disabilities 383 Importance of Knowledge About Disability in Student Affairs 386 Universal Design in Student Affairs 388 Functional Areas in Student Affairs 390 Conclusion 410 Discussion Questions 410 15 Transitions and Student Affairs 411 Entering Postsecondary Education 412 Transitions During Postsecondary Education 425 Exiting Postsecondary Education 431 Conclusion 437 Discussion Questions 437 Conclusion: A Social Justice Approach to Disability in Higher Education: Strategies for Inclusion 438 Strategies for Creating More Socially Just Campuses 440 Conclusion 447 References 448 Index 501
£33.24
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Perspectives on Health Disability Welfare and
Book SynopsisBringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Introduction: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market 1Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett 1 Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK 5Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett 2 Disability Benefits in an Age of Austerity 25Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill 3 From Impairment to Incapacity – Educational Inequalities in Disabled People’s Ability to Work 47Ben Baumberg 4 ‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients 65Kayleigh Garthwaite 5 Measuring the Impacts of Health Conditions on Work Incapacity – Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey 81William Whittaker and Matt Sutton 6 The Influence of Presenting Health Condition on Eventual Return to Work for Individuals Receiving Health-Related Welfare Benefits 107Fiona Purdie and Stephen Kellett 7 A Review of Health-related Support Provision within the UK Work Programme – What’s on the Menu? 127Jenny Ceolta-Smith, Sarah Salway and Angela Mary Tod 8 Supporting the UK’s Workless – An International Comparative Perspective 151Mike Danson, Ailsa McKay and Willie Sullivan Index 175
£999.99
Kogan Page Positively Purple
Book SynopsisKate Nash OBE is a change leader with over 30 years' experience in working strategically to effect long term changes in relation to disabled people. She is the creator & CEO of PurpleSpace (www.purplespace.org). Established in 2015 it is the world's only professional development membership hub for disability employee resource groups.In 2017 she founded #PurpleLightUp, a global movement of disabled people, allies and champions who celebrate the economic contribution of disabled people to the global economy. This takes place on 3rd December each year as a mark of respect to the UN International Day of Disabled People. Prominent landmarks that have been illuminated include The Shard in London, Blackpool Tower, John F Kennedy Airport, Niagara Falls, Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Australian Parliament. She is based in London, UK.Trade Review"Positively Purple should be required reading for every FTSE 250 CEO. Business leaders need to understand and value 'human capital'. Kate Nash is an expert in helping us recognise the value of every human - including those with disabilities." * Ian Stuart, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC UK Bank plc *"Positively Purple is a tale about the talent and potential of people with disabilities. Any CEO wanting to test the robustness of their disability strategy should understand the politics of disability. Kate Nash's personal story told with brutal honesty, is a compelling read and full of practical lessons." * Duncan Tait, Chief Executive, Inchcape plc *"Global multinationals like GSK, increasingly choose to learn directly from their employees with disabilities. Building disability confidence from the inside out by investing in a disability employee resource group will make the journey so much easier. Kate's personal story shows us how to supercharge the disability inclusion revolution and create a better, more accessible, working world." * Andy Garrett, GSK Workplace Adjustments Service Programme Director, Global co-lead GSK Disability Confidence Network *"It's hard for me to talk about Kate and her work without sounding like I am always using hyperbole. I find Kate Nash's presence throughout Positively Purple inspiring. Her words embolden the reader to participate as proactive protagonists in the fight for equity. The path she outlines uses lessons from other equality and identity dimensions but adds a particular magic, unique to Kate herself. This book is essential reading for anyone who would call themselves an ally of equity at work. My team and I are all avid fans of Kate and grateful for all her lessons and practical actions." * John Amaechi OBE, APS *"Kate Nash has managed to do what no one before her has ever done. Positively Purple is the manuscript for living life and creating epic change for people with disabilities. Kate's special brand of combined grace and spicy wit helps us quite literally feel better for life. She has taught us how to feel good and change the world simultaneously as shown by empirical data. Prepare to have a hard time putting the book down." * Belinda May, Partner & Co-Chair, Dentons US LLP Disability/Accessibility ERG Affinity Group *"Positively Purple is an incredibly powerful and positive view into Kate's world and the invaluable work she continues to do to raise awareness of the challenges millions face daily. Kate Nash delves into the world of work, which for many is a minefield, and opens the door by providing tangible suggestions for people with disabilities and those who are looking to hire the best talent!" * Steve Ingham, Chief Executive, PageGroup *"An unrelentingly positive read! Brilliantly weaves her story with the must-read practical advice for employers. Show how employers can lead as allies to create a powerful movement for change, in delivering an inclusive workplace and society." * Mark Hodgkinson, Chief Executive, Scope *"There is nothing inevitable about progress - it takes relentless campaigning and great campaigners. Kate Nash is one of those people. Her insights into how to create a space without fear of getting it wrong and the importance of positive campaigning should be read by every social change campaigner." * Tiernan Brady, Global Director of Inclusion, Clifford Chance LLP *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Disability identity; Chapter - 02: Nature, nurture and a new reality; Chapter - 03: The soft bigotry of low expectation; Chapter - 04: Who do I want to be when I grow up?; Chapter - 05: Disability is a political experience; Chapter - 06: Build your network to get ahead; Chapter - 07: Lonely in a crowd; Chapter - 08: Eradicating shame; Chapter - 09: Ensuring an organization is better for having you there; Chapter - 10: Getting on at work, rather than simply getting in ; Chapter - 11: Starting a long-haul strategy to change the world; Chapter - 12: The third phase of change: when movements take off; Chapter - 13: Building disability confidence from the inside out; Chapter - 14: The futurists; Chapter - 15: Afterword; Chapter - 16: Notes
£44.65
American Psychological Association Eliminating Inequities for Women With
Book SynopsisOver 20 million American women and girls have some form of disability. Women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services, and the quality of the health care they do receive is often worse than the care received by women without disabilities and men with disabilities. Using an integrated care framework as a foundation, authors in this book tackle the structural, environmental, and social barriers that prevent women with disabilities from accessing effective and culturally competent care and services, and offer plans for action to improve wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention among this broad yet consistently underserved population.Table of ContentsContributorsForeword Wanda K. JonesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline SignoreI. The Big Picture Health Disparities and Equity: The Intersection of Disability, Health, and Sociodemographic Characteristics Among Women Margaret A. Nosek Access to Care: The Heart of Equity in Health Care Marsha Saxton Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Women With Disabilities Susan Parish, Monika Mitra, and Lisa Iezzoni II. Delivery of Care Achieving Equity in the Health of Women With Disabilities Through Telehealth: Challenges and Benefits Anju Khubchandani and Denise Thew Reproductive and Sexual Health for Women With Disabilities Caroline Signore Oral Health of Women With Disabilities H. Barry Waldman and Steven P. Perlman III. Specific Populations Across the Lifecourse: Youth and Aging With Disability Judy Simms-Cendan and Adam Golden Integrated Health Care for Women of Color With Disabilities Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo "We Exist": The Health and Well-Being of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People With Disabilities Lesley A. Tarasoff Parenting With Disability: Experiences of Disabled Women Erin E. Andrews and Kara Ayers Integrated Primary Behavioral Health Care for Women Veterans With Disabilities Colleen Clemency Cordes, Linda R. Mona, and LaDonna C. Saxon Coming Together to End Violence Against Women and Girls With Disabilities Julie Williams and Lyndsay Colvin IV. RecommendationsAn Agenda to Eliminate Inequities Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline Signore Afterword Gloria L. KrahnIndexAbout the Editors
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Dont Call Me Inspirational
Book SynopsisA disabled woman confronts body image, sexuality, bias, discrimination and condescension as she fashions an independent and fulfilling lifeTrade Review"I've known Harilyn Rousso as a powerful activist and gifted artist, but with this revelatory book, she becomes something even more rare: a storyteller who conveys her uniqueness, and so helps us to discover our own. Don't Call Me Inspirational is irresistible to read, honest, insightful and universal."-Gloria Steinem "Don’t Call Me Inspirational is stunning, a pleasure to read. Rousso’s outstanding book is both a beautifully written memoir about growing up in the 1950s and a critical historical analysis of disability politics. The author moves through her life, diving into gender/sexuality/embodiment/disability politics with grace and honesty. Nothing is simply resolved; rather, it is lived, moved through, engaged, struggled over, and then revisited."—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI Close Encounters with the Clueless1 Who’s Harilyn?2 Birth, Mine3 Close Encounters with the Clueless4 The Beggar and the Cripple5 The Stare 6 Always the Other 7 Why I am Not Inspirational8 HomeII On Leaving Home9 Wedding Day, 193310 Dancing11 Exploding Beans12 My Sister13 Adolescent Conversation14 On Leaving Home15 Hideous Shoes16 Driving High17 Eli18 My Father, Myself19 Driving away from HomeIII On Not Looking in the Mirror20 Walk Straight!21 On Not Looking in the Mirror22 Facing My Face23 Meditations on Speech and Silence24 Daring Digits25 Right-Hand Painting26 Being Only One: Some Meditations on SolitudeIV What's a Woman?27 What’s a Woman?28 He Was the One29 Blank Page30 Buying the Wedding Dress31 First Date32 First Night33 Mixed Couple34 Sylvester35 Faces of Eve36 Tough Bird37 Hand in HandV Why Claim Disability?38 Finding My Way 39 Keeping the Distance40 That “Inspirational” Label41 Token of Approval42 Disabled Women’s Community43 The Story of Betty, Revisited44 Listening to Myself45 Activist Sisters46 Toilet Troubles47 My Mentoring Project48 Why Claim Disability?49 Broken Silences50 Eulogy for My Nondisabled Self51 Eulogy for My Freakish Self52 Ode to My Disabled Self
£19.94
Temple University Press,U.S. Disability and Passing
Book SynopsisWhy passing is a crucial concept in disability studiesTrade Review "Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson’s collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf." --Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan"Disability and Passing is innovative in its use of disability to analyze both the acts and ideologies of passing from a wide range of theoretical, topical, and disciplinary perspectives. The essays are strong and smart—some are brilliant."--Kim E. Nielsen, Professor of Disability Studies and History, University of Toledo, and author of A Disability History of the United States Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 IntroductionJeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of DisabilityDaniel J. Wilson3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public DiscourseJeffrey A. Brune4 The Menstrual MasqueradeDavid Linton5 “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American SouthDea H. Boster6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the BusPeta Cox7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and SportMichael A. Rembis8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual DisabilityAllison C. Carey9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationKristen C. HarmonContributorsIndex
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Vulnerable Constitutions
Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Vulnerable Constitutions
Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Allies and Obstacles
Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complexand often tenserelationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dyTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Allies and Obstacles
Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Making Their Days Happen
Book SynopsisThrough a compelling combination of policy analysis and humanizing detail of both consumers and providers of PAS, this book appeals to students, scholars, and patients of these services who are considering use of self-directed PAS alike.
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Elusive Kinship
Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Elusive Kinship
Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Richard IIIs Bodies from Medieval England to
Book SynopsisThe story of a medieval king's disability traveling through time from Shakespeare's hands to todayTrade Review“Wilson explores the many meanings of Shakespeare’s masterpiece in performance and as text and of Richard III as an historical figure in a wide-ranging study that offers careful and approachable close readings that will interest actors, directors, playgoers, scholars, and the general reader. While Richard’s body is center stage in this reception history, Wilson’s spotlight is also on the audience. This book makes a strong case for Richard’s centrality to disability studies and is a hugely enjoyable read.”—Essaka Joshua, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature“Erudite, original, and thoughtful, Jeffrey Wilson’s Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity is a vital resource for anyone studying disability history, stigmatized bodies, and the historiography of monarchy. Chapters range widely across medieval and early-modern visual representations of Richard and the presentation of Richard’s so-called hunch on stage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book also includes a fascinating account of contemporary performances and the political stakes in the twenty-first century of casting Richard as a person with a disability, as a person with a disability who culturally and politically identifies as Disabled, or as a person without a disability. The volume concludes with the felicitous coinage ‘historical presentism’ to discuss the study of Shakespearean adaptations and appropriations and reminds us why we still read about Richard, and perhaps why we still read Shakespeare at all.”—Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English at the University of Georgia, and editorof Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body"Wilson's perceptive and timely work...demonstrates succinctly that disability and its presence within Shakespeare’s Richard III and all subsequent interpretations of Richard’s body remain central to our understanding of Shakespeare’s role within English disability history.... [A]n excellent resource for anyone seeking to visualise and trace the undeniable shift in interpretations of Richard III’s physical body through time."—Cahiers Élisabéthains"[A] detailed and valuable performance history of Richard III and the play's relationship with disability. Through fascinating and often revelatory close reading of primary sources—both textual and visual—he immerses us in the character of Shakespeare's 'rudely stamp'd' king."—Times Literary Supplement
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