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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

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Critical Autism Studies: Notes on an Emerging FieldMichael Orsini and Joyce DavidsonPart I. Approaching Autism1. Autism in an Age of Empathy: A Cautionary CritiquePatrick McDonagh2. Autism and the PosthumanStuart Murray3. Cerebralizing Autism within the Neurodiversity MovementFrancisco Ortega4. Autism as a Form of Biological CitizenshipCharlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’DellPart II. Researching the Politics and Practice of Care5. Autism and Genetics: Profit, Risk, and Bare LifeMajia Holmer Nadesan6. Caring for Autism: Toward a More Responsive StateKristin Bumiller7. Participatory Research with Autistic Communities: Shifting the SystemDora Raymaker and Christina NicolaidisPart III. Diagnosis and Difference in Autism8. Capturing Diagnostic Journeys of Life on the Autism SpectrumSara Ryan9. Divided or Opposed?: The Level of Functioning Arguments in Autism Related Political Discourse in CanadaDana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh 10. Autism and Social Movements in France: A Comparative PerspectiveBrigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau Part IV. Cultural Productions and Representations of Autism11. Narrating AutismMark Osteen12. The Shifting Horizons of Autism OnlineJoyce Davidson and Michael Orsini 13. Autism and the Task of the TranslatorKristina Chew 14. “All the Things I Have Ever Been”: Autoethnographic Reflections on Academic Writing and AutismDawn Eddings Prince ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis fifth edition updates content, examples, and supporting research for well-developed principles. Practical dialogues representing a range of social work practice are a particular strength. The book also emphasizes culturally competent practice and guides social workers in difficult situations such as sharing bad news. -- Ronald Rooney, University of Minnesota This book is timeless! The authors have updated and enriched their newest edition and have added perceptive insights on crosscultural interviewing and new problem-solving interventions. They provide a dynamic examination of the helping process and present ideas and illustrations with eloquence and clarity. This seminal book is a gift to the profession. -- Alex Gitterman, University of Connecticut School of Social Work Too often students underestimate the complexity of interviewing, having seen televised talk show interviews or having engaged in problem-solving with friends. This book explicitly describes the skills and knowledge social workers must use in their professional roles. -- Kim Strom-Gottfried, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Social Work The Kadushins have managed to convey both the science and art of interviewing without diminishing either aspect. Their book is a very practical tool for social workers and any human service worker. -- Julie Hughens, Mary Baldwin CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. General Orientation and Basic Concepts of Interviewing and Communication 1. Defining and Characterizing the Social Work Interview 2. The Interview as Communication 3. Listening and Silence as Interview Techniques 4. Nonverbal Communication 5. Establishing a Relationship Part II. Sequential Phases in the Interview Process and Associated Techniques 6. The Introductory Phase 7. The Problem Exploration Phase 8. The Developmental Phase: Problem-Solving Interventions 9. The Developmental Phase: More Problem-Solving Interventions 10. The Developmental Phase: Questioning Techniques 11. Termination and Evaluation Part III. Special Problems in Interviewing 12. Cross-Cultural Interviewing 13. Problematic Interviews Part IV. The Essence of the Good Interview 14. The Competent Interviewer L'Envoi- Appendix: Transcribed Interview and Critique References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is not an inspirational memoir. This is not trauma porn. This is a memoir about the forces that impact our lives, both good and bad.Athena Stevens has never learned the name of the doctor whose lack of intervention at her birth lead to her cerebral palsy, but she feels the consequences of his actions and inaction every day. The factor observed first and foremost in her life will forever be the effects of what other people have done to her, rather than her accomplishments. And yet, she was groomed to believe that she would overcome any force that stood in her way.A memoir like no other, What's Done Cannot be Undone takes readers on a whirlwind journey through Athena's life, providing a profound insight into the realities of moving through the world as a disabled woman. From being born dead' to co-founding the Women's Equality Party; from not being picked to play the back of a cow to an Olivier Award nomination, this complex, lyrical, gut-punch of a memoir is laugh-out-loud funny, unrelentingly furious, and a powerful reminder that changing the world singlehandedly is as impossible as defying the laws of physics.

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Book Synopsis The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. Trade Review ADVANCE PRAISE ‘A very funny and honest account of Ashley’s extraordinary ordinary life. There is treasure here for all parents, non-parents and children of parents, and that is surely most people.’Alex Horne ‘Great insights and advice for any parent, from a unique and fascinating family and their brilliantly funny dad.’Katy Brand ‘Absolutely hilarious and yet so poignant. This book is going to both entertain and bring comfort to so many people, giving them hope for the future.’Matt Lucas ‘There’s so much love and good energy in this book. It had me smiling from the very first words.’Adam Hills ‘Normal Schmormal is a laugh-out-loud, touching memoir of advice, where embracing the weird becomes something wonderful. Every parent should have a copy.’Emma Kennedy ‘Hilarious, fascinating, and moving. A very special book about a very special family. I laughed and learned so much.’Elis James ‘This is a must read. Ashley Blaker has a special brand of comic magic. His gift is in making the toughest life challenges seem relatable and even joyous.’Rob Rinder ‘Funny and warm hearted, this book is a godsend for neurodivergent parents like me.’Josie Long ‘Inspirational, moving and massively funny. A beautiful schmeautiful book.’David Schneider ‘Ashley is a superb comic writer and this is a brilliantly funny and often incredibly emotional memoir.’David Walliams ‘Full of love, this book is a unique and uplifting document of a remarkable everyday life. God knows how Ashley found time to write it.’Mark Watson ‘Funny, moving and incredibly useful. This book can teach us all something about parenting.’Lucy Porter ‘A vivid record of a father’s love for his children and a plea for others to follow suit, whatever their kids may be like. A gorgeous book.’Jeremy Dyson ‘Chipped away at my ignorance and made me laugh at the same time. A neat trick.’Mike Wozniak

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the early education and care of young deaf children, and the support of their caregivers. The authors investigate what it takes to facilitate deaf children''s progress through early childhood, focusing on language, communication, learning, and well-being in the sub-Saharan African context of Ghana. They provide a review and critical discussion of the existing knowledge base surrounding early childhood deaf education and examine traditional and contemporary perspectives on childhood deafness and caregiving that are meaningful to the African early childhood deaf education landscape. The book draws on the knowledge and understanding developed through a collaborative UK-Ghana research project that examined the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) of young deaf children in Ghana. Examples from this project bring to life the issues surrounding ca

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNews nerds are the data journalists, news app developers, and web designers transforming how news stories are discovered and told. Allie Kosterich skillfully uses interviews, employment histories, trade press coverage, and conference proceedings to describe how these newsroom innovators have augmented reporting and changed accountability reporting for the better. If you've ever wondered who's behind the graphs, stats, and apps at news sites, this is the book that tells their tale. * James T. Hamilton, Hearst Professor of Communication, Stanford University *News Nerds is an ambitious and exciting book that reveals just how much the profile, roles, and skills of the professional journalist has fundamentally changed. Through an innovative mix of network career analysis, interviews, and analysis of the trade press, Allie Kosterich shows how news organizations have increasingly fashioned those wielding data, analytics, and technological skills into journalists creating new forms of journalism. Kosterich shows us how this has augmented the institution of journalism in the U.S., with sweeping implications for how the press navigates changing economic and technological contexts and its increasingly contested relationship with the public. * Daniel Kreiss, Edgar Thomas Cato Distinguished Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media *News Nerds is an engagingly written and methodologically innovative analysis of an important ongoing transformation affecting the institution of journalism. Kosterich brings an incredibly impressive range of data sources and analytical approaches to bear to demonstrate how journalism has been restructuring itself in response to technological and economic change. This is institution-level scholarship of the highest order. * Philip M. Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, Duke University *The rise of the news nerd is not so much a story of the revenge of the nerds saving journalism through data but is instead a reminder that institutions and professions adapt to change, and change doesn't just happen when new technologies emerge. Kosterich develops the concept of "institutional augmentation," moving beyond tired binaries of change outcomes in organizations, a theoretical contribution relevant to all industries that find themselves in the throes of technological upheaval. * Nikki Usher, author of News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism *This book assesses the institutionalization of new types of editorial positions in US news organizations... The book is an excellent companion to Jason Whittaker's Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism. Recommended for higher education journalism, mass communication, and visual arts programs. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: News Nerds Chapter 1: Institutional Change and the Profession of Journalism Chapter 2: Destabilization of Established Journalism Practices Chapter 3: Experimentation and Evaluation in the Profession of Journalism Chapter 4: Legitimization of News Nerds Chapter 5: Diffusion of News Nerds Chapter 6: Institutional Augmentation and the Future of News Nerds Appendix: Data and Methods Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to the creation of what Thorson terms the invented state: systematic misperceptions about public policy. However, people get the facts wrong not because they are lazy, stupid, or blinded by partisan loyalty. Rather, misperceptions are created when three conditions are met: when citizens have incomplete information about an issue, when their own biases color their understanding of it, and when they feel that the issue is important. In other words, the invented state is created not just by exposure to explicit misinformation, but also by individuals'' cognitive errors. Correcting these policy misperceptions is highly effective at reducing false beliefs. In addition, providing people w

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Book SynopsisIn Building Theory in Political Communication, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus present the first generalizable conceptual framework for political communication that is also falsifiable, explaining how media performance contributes to successful political performance across nations, regime types, and information systems. The book identifies three tensions in the current literature that have thus far prevented a general theory of political communication. The first is a vague understanding of what it means for media to exercise independence from politics. The second is a focus on media in wealthy, Western, and democratic countries. The third is a tendency to build interpretive frameworks that pose as theories, but that cannot be tested. To address these three tensions, this book adapts, refines, and extends the Politics-Media-Politics (PMP) principle, which states that variations in political ecosystems have a major impact on media systems, values, practices, and resourceTrade ReviewMany good ideas take a decade to mature. That is also the case in this book. Eminent colleagues Wolfsfeld, Sheafer, and Althaus have written a compelling and inspiring 'big picture' book. Their Politics-Media-Politics approach provides a broad framework and a refreshing lens through which to see political communication theorizing. The endeavour is ambitious and likely to inform a new decade of political communication scholarship. * Claes de Vreese, Professor of Political Communication, University of Amsterdam *In an era of increasingly complex media and political ecosystems, Wolfsfeld, Sheafer, and Althaus' theorizing offers a much-needed prism through which to view sociopolitical developments. Integrating disparate findings across fields and over time and space, their Politics-Media-Politics principle and conceptual map speak incisively to both democratic theory and practice. This big-thinking book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how our world operates today. * Patricia Moy, Christy Cressey Professor of Communication, University of Washington *I have often used the PMP principle in my work and teaching as it helps to understand and clarify the complex interactions between politicians and journalists. This ambitious book extends, updates, and deepens the original PMP framework so it can be used in more (non-Western) contexts and in today's political information environment. The authors sketch a sophisticated roadmap, supported by examples from across the globe, that will allow political communication studies to speak to each other and stay on track. * Peter Van Aelst, Professor in Political Communication, University of Antwerp, Belgium *This book provides the most ambitious attempt so far to integrate almost the entire field of political communication into a single framework. A truly erudite, well-written, and thought-provoking effort. * Stefaan Walgrave, Professor of Political Science, University of Antwerp *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Politics-Media-Politics Approach Chapter 2: PMP and Election Campaigns Chapter 3: PMP, Violent Conflicts, and Peace Processes Chapter 4: PMP and Historical Changes Chapter 5: PMP and Comparative Political Communication Chapter 6: Using the PMP Approach to Assess Media: Performance in both Democratic and Autocratic Regimes Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisDoes the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitudes and behavior of citizens? While there is a fair amount of research exploring how social media has empowered social actors to challenge authoritarian regimes, there is much less addressing whether and how the state can actively shape the flow of information to its advantage. In China, for instance, citizens often resort to rightful resistance to lodge complaints and defend rights. By using the rhetoric of the central government, powerless citizens may exploit the slim political opportunity structure and negotiate with the state for better governance. But this tactic also reinforces the legitimacy of authoritarian states; citizens engage rightful resistance precisely because they trust the state, at least the central government, to some degree. Drawing on original survey data and rich qualitative sources, Directed Digital Dissidence in AutTable of ContentsChapter 1 - The China Case: Strong State, Popular Contention, and the Internet Chapter 2 -The Chinese Internet: Citizen Awareness of Government Control Chapter 3 - What Does Directed Digital Dissidence Look Like? Critical Information Flows, Trust, and Support for Protest Chapter 4 - Social Media: The Battleground of the Information War Chapter 5 - Jumping Over the Great Firewall: A Threat to the Chinese Strategy Chapter 6 - The Digital Dissident Citizen: Who are the Wall Jumpers? Chapter 7 - Managing the Information War: Voices Heard from Beyond the Wall are Lost Chapter 8 - Digital Directed Dissidence in Action: Applications and its Limits Chapter 9 - Will Digital Directed Dissidence Keep Working? Appendices Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the concept of the intact mind and how it affects disability policy and practice.The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Emerging largely out of psychoanalytic theory dating back to the end of the 19th century, the intact mind was later amplified in memoirs, where parents wrote of their tireless efforts to free their children from the grip of autism. Though the idea gives hope to parents devastated by a child''s diagnosis, Amy Lutz argues that it has also contributed to widespread dismantling of services badly needed by severely disabled children and their families.In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current poliTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating book: It is forthright, it is honest, it is comprehensive, it is evidence-based. Importantly, this work tees up essential discussion of 'inclusion,' and how often it too relies on false hope, and distracts from our urgent need as a society to face the demands of guardianships and life-time supports we should be building for our autism community. * Bryna Siegel, PhD, Founder & Executive Director, Autism Center of Northern California; Professor, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California (Ret.) *Reading this brave, well-researched book I felt myself making a mental list of all the people to whom I'd recommend it. Lutz shows us the perilous seduction of the 'intact mind,' moving us through historic landmarks to the contested landscape in which we find ourselves today. With clarity of style and argument she shows how rhetoric transforms into policy, harming the very people those policies are meant to help. Her approach is one of deep empathy and understanding for those with severe autism, and their caregivers. * Deborah R. Barnbaum, PhD, author of The Ethics of Autism: Among Them but Not of Them and Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University *Amy Lutz bravely tackles the myth of the intact mind that has become so prevalent in modern autism dialogue. Lutz acknowledges that the intact mind mantra provides families critical 'high octane hope,' but also poignantly emphasizes the real-life consequences of blind adherence to dogma in terms of vastly reduced critical life opportunities for some of the most vulnerable individuals along the autism spectrum. A must-read for anyone truly committed to seeing all the faces of autism and optimizing care and long-term outcomes for everyone. * Lee Elizabeth Wachtel, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine *Table of ContentsPART I: THE HISTORY OF THE INTACT MIND Introduction Chapter 1: Valuing the Disabled Child: The Emergence of Disability Parent Memoirs Chapter 2: Whose Fault Is It? Psychoanalysis and the First Autism Parent Memoirs Chapter 3: Is There a "Key"? Biomedical Discourse and Second-Generation Autism Memoirs PART II: THE CASE STUDIES Chapter 4: The Battle Against Sheltered Workshops Chapter 5: The Erosion of Guardianship Chapter 6: The Resurgence of Facilitated Communication Conclusion

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenona way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement. Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.Trade ReviewI am happy to unequivocally say that this text makes a fascinating and groundbreaking contribution to feminist and disability philosophy. I would enthusiastically recommend this text to anyone interested in disability and philosophy, and especially to those new to philosophy. * Tessa-May Zirnsak, Metapsychology Online Reviews *Elizabeth Barnes' new book offers a much-needed philosophical discussion of disability capitalizing on relevant research in bioethics, feminist philosophy and disability studies. * Elena Fell and Natalia Lukianova, The Philosophical Quarterly *Elizabeth Barnes has written an interesting and important book about disability . . . Barnes has brought a new level of precision to a popular slogan and has then set about defending it with all the familiar tools of contemporary analytic philosophy . . . it remains to be seen where the debate goes next, but wherever it goes, future discussion will need to engage with the work of Elizabeth Barnes. * Jennifer Hawkins, Ethics *It is a thoughtful, thorough, and rigorous argument that nevertheless has an accessible style. It is not a book for a generalist audience, but could work quite readily in both undergraduate and graduate courses. Her attempt to moderate a path between the physical body and social constructivism, and to combat a generalized skepticism in the field of philosophy about the possibility that disability might be a good thing for some people, or at least a neutral thing, that lives of disabled persons are generally as rich, valuable, and worth living as those of nondisabled persons, and that such skepticism is "rooted in--often knee-jerk unreflective--stereotypes about what disabled lives are like" is an unapologetic and strong case for disability positivity. It is a valuable contribution to disability philosophy in particular, and philosophy in general. * Nancy J. Hirschmann, Hypatia Reviews *The Minority Body is a fascinating and compelling study of the concept of disability. Barnes redefines disability as a social phenomenon in a fresh way. Her revolutionary ideas compel us to look at the minority body without making value-judgments. * The Washington Book Review *In her engaging, powerfully argued, and good-humored book, Barnes seeks to illuminate the nature of physical disability, challenge the view that it has a negative impact on well-being, and defend a mere-difference view of disability . . . it is a wildly creative, rigorous, and ground-breaking work that represents a significant contribution to the on-going inquiry into the nature and value of disability. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that it is the most important single-authored book in philosophy of disability to come out of the analytic tradition in a generation. * Stephen M. Campbell & Joseph A. Stramondo, Notre Dame Philosophical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1: Constructing Disability 2: Bad-difference/Mere-difference 3: The Value-Neutral Model 4: Taking Their Word for It 5: Causing Disability 6: Disability Pride

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent positions on normative issues. Thirteen new essays examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices. The contributors are Norman Daniels, Ellen Daniels Zide, Leslie P. Francis, Christie Hartley, Richard Hull, Guy Kahane, F. M. Kamm, Rosalind McDougall, Jeff McMahan, Douglas MacLean, Susannah Rose, Anita Silvers, Julian Savulescu, Lorella Terzi, David Wasserman, and Jonathan Wolff.Trade ReviewIn this thoughtfully assembled volume on philosophical issues in disability and disadvantage, editors Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton have brought together an exciting mix of established and up and coming philosophers to address issues ranging from how to understand disability to whether and when to create children with disabilities * Rebecca L. Walker, Mind *Disability studies is an exciting and expanding field within philosophy and bioethics, and anyone interested in this rich area of research will find rewarding reading in this volume * Jeffrey Blustein, Journal of Moral Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The welfarist account of disability ; 2. Disability, adaptation and inclusion ; 3. Vagaries of the natural lottery? Human diversity, disability and justice: A capability perspective ; 4. Disability among equals ; 5. An inclusive contractualism: Obligations to the mentally disabled* ; 6. No talent? Beyond the worst off!: A diverse theory of justice for disability ; 7. Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability ; 8. Respect Without Reason: Relating to Alzheimer's ; 9. Radical cognitive limitation ; 10. Disability, discrimination and irrelevant goods ; 11. Ethical constraints on allowing or causing the existence of people with disabilities ; 12. Impairment, flourishing and the moral nature of parenthood ; 13. Projected disability and parental responsibilities

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Book SynopsisDeaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson, and Paddy Ladd offer new histories and overviews of major topics. Each chapter is followed by a response from a pre-eminent thinker in the field. The volume includes studies of sign languages and Deaf communities in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States.Trade Reviewan extremely valuable publication which certainly delivers a global perspective on Deafhood * Sara Louise Wheeler, British Sociological Association *this book is a good example of how sign language research and deaf empowerment can and should go hand in hand, and would have great value as a set text in sign linguistics and deaf studies classes. * Connie de Vos and Nick Palfreyman, Journal of Linguistics *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: WHY GO AROUND THE DEAF WORLD? GAURAV MATHUR AND DONNA JO NAPOLI; 1: SIGN LANGUAGE GEOGRAPHY CAROL A. PADDEN; 1 RESPONSE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN LEXICOSTATISTICAL STUDIES OF SIGN LANGUAGES JAMES WOODWARD; 2: TWO TYPES OF NONCONCATENATIVE MORPHOLOGY IN SIGNED LANGUAGES GAURAV MATHUR AND CHRISTIAN RATHMANN; 2 RESPONSE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON FORM-MEANING CORRESPONDENCES IN TWO TYPES OF VERBS IN ASL PAUL DUDIS; 3: SOURCES OF HANDSHAPE ERROR IN FIRST-TIME SIGNERS OF ASL DEBORAH CHEN PICHLER; 3 RESPONSE: MODALITY AND LANGUAGE IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE RUSSELL S. ROSEN; 4: GETTING TO THE POINT: HOW A SIMPLE GESTURE BECAME A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT IN NICARAGUAN SIGNING ANN SENGHAS AND MARIE COPPOLA; 4 RESPONSE: A POINT WELL TAKEN: ON THE TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONY OF POINTING ROLAND PFAU; 5: ACQUISITION OF TOPICALIZATION IN VERY LATE LEARNERS OF LIBRAS: DEGREES OF RESILIENCY IN LANGUAGE SANDRA K. WOOD; 5 RESPONSE: A CRITICAL PERIOD FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A THEORY OF MIND? CLUES FROM HOMESIGNERS CYRIL COURTIN; 6: INTERROGATIVES IN BAN KHOR SIGN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTION ANGELA M. NONAKA; 6 RESPONSE: VILLAGE SIGN LANGUAGES - A COMMENTARY ULRIKE ZESHAN; 7: SIGN LANGUAGE HUMOUR, HUMAN SINGULARITIES, AND THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE DONNA JO NAPOLI AND RACHEL SUTTON-SPENCE; 7 RESPONSE: GESTURE FIRST OR SPEECH FIRST IN LANGUAGE ORIGINS? ADAM KENDON; 8: BEST PRACTICE FOR COLLABORATING WITH DEAF COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AMY WILSON AND NICKSON KAKIRI; 8 RESPONSE: DEAF MOBILIZATION AROUND THE WORLD: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE YERKER ANDERSSON; 9: HIV/AIDS AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY: A CONVERSATION LEILA MONAGHAN AND DEBORAH KARP; 9 RESPONSE: HIV AIDS AND DEAF COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CONVERSATION JOHN MELETSE AND RUTH MORGAN; 10: THE LANGUAGE POLITICS OF JAPANESE SIGN LANGUAGE (NIHON SHUWA) KAREN NAKAMURA; 10 RESPONSE: PLURALIZATION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO JSL HEGEMONY SOYA MORI; 11: SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN IN CHINA JUN HUI YANG; 11 RESPONSE: SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN IN INDIA MADAN M. VASISHTA; 12: DO DEAF CHILDREN EAT DEAF CARROTS? PAUL SCOTT; 12 FIRST RESPONSE: "WE'RE THE SAME, I'M DEAF, YOU'RE DEAF, HUH!" DONNA WEST

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Book SynopsisThe assessment and treatment of mental health concerns for Deaf individuals has been largely ignored and/or misunderstood by many mental health professionals. In Mental Health and Deafness, Margaret du Feu and Cathy Chovaz seek to rectify this by outlining current issues surrounding mental health and deafness. The book provides valuable information to professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of mental health and deafness, and the authors share their extensive clinical experience with the reader through a variety of case studies. The authors primarily focus on individuals who were born deaf or deafened early in life, but also describe the mental health aspects of acquired deafness and individuals with both deafness and blindness. Mental Health and Deafness begins by describing the historical and social context of deafness, and follows the life journey of a Deaf individual, focusing on parental reactions, language acquisition, and mental health disorders of children, adolescTrade Review...geared toward clinicians such as family physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers who have little experience working with Deaf people...readers can expect to come away with a good basic understanding of mental health considerations when working with Deaf patients * Amanda OHearn, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1. Deafness: The Facts ; Chapter 2. Deaf People in Society ; Chapter 3. Deaf Children: The Beginning ; Chapter 4. Psychological Development of Deaf Children ; Chapter 5. Educational Issues ; Chapter 6. Adolescence ; Chapter 7. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Assessment ; Chapter 8. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Mental Health Disorders ; Chapter 9. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Treatment ; Chapter 10. Mental Health of Deaf Adults: Introduction ; Chapter 11. Deaf Adults: Assessment ; Chapter 12. Physical and Organic Disorders & Intellectual Disability ; Chapter 13. Schizophrenia ; Chapter 14. Mood Disorders ; Chapter 15. Other Disorders ; Chapter 16. Deafened People: Mental Health ; Chapter 17. Deafblind People: Mental Health ; Chapter 18. Older Deaf Adults: Mental Health ; Chapter 19. Legal and Forensic Issues ; Chapter 20. Deaf Adults: Treatment ; Chapter 21. Services

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Book SynopsisProviding an innovative and accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans, this work argues for a radical new understanding of rights. The study is based on interviews with those who had experienced discrimination on disability issues.

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Book SynopsisThis study reviews two decades of research on mental disorder and presents empirical and theoretical work which aims to determine more accurate predictions of violent behaviour.Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors 1: Toward a Rejuvenation of Risk Assessment Research John Monahan, Henry J. Steadman. 2: Anger as a Risk Factor for Violence among the Mentally Disordered Raymond W. Novaco 3: Impulsiveness and Aggression Ernest S. Barratt 4: Psychopathy as a Risk Marker for Violence: Development and Validation of a Screening Version of the Revised Psychopathy Checklist Stephen D. Hart, Robert D. Hare, Adelle E. Forth. 5: Mental Disorder, Substance Abuse, and Community Violence: An Epidemiological Approach Jeffrey W. Swanson 6: Psychotic Symptoms and the Violent/Illegal Behavior of Mental Patients Compared to Community Controls Bruce G. Link, Ann Stueve. 7: Delusions and Violence Pamela J. Taylor, Philippa Garety, Alec Buchanan, Alison Reed, Simon Wessely, Katarzyna Ray, Graham Dunn, Don Grubin. 8: Hallucinations and Violence Dale E. McNiel 9: Personality Disorders and Violence Thomas A. Widiger, Timothy J. Trull. 10: Demographic and Case History Variables in Risk Assessment Deidre Klassen, William A. O'connor. 11: Social Networks, Social Support, and Violence among Persons with Severe, Persistent Mental Illness Sue E. Estroff, Catherine Zimmer. Designing a New Generation of Risk Assessment Research Henry J. Steadman, John Monahan, Paul S. Appelbaum, Thomas Grisso, Edward P. Mulvey, Loren H. Roth, Pamela Clark Robbins, Deidre Klassen. Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Baynton, challenging the conventional historiography, argues that the selective phase of American immigration policy, despite its heavy reliance on the ­sensible-sounding ‘public charge’ standard, was no less discriminatory. During those years, he demonstrates, immigration officials could and did customarily invoke this standard to rule out such ‘defectives’ as women unaccompanied by male providers and members of races with supposed ‘predispositions’ to criminality. Even those with ‘objective’ physical impairments (as the Americans with Disabilities Act would underscore many years later) were incapable of work only if you made certain assumptions about how workplaces were to be structured. So beware ‘reasonable’ justifications for immigration policies, Baynton warns.” * New York Times *“Focusing on immigrant experiences in New York, Baynton explains how ideas about genetics, disability, race, family life, and employment worked together to exclude an extraordinarily diverse range of men and women from the shores of the US.” * New Scientist *“In Defectives in the Land, Baynton extends his groundbreaking inquiries into how we’ve arrived at what we think of as disability in contemporary America. Baynton’s is an elegant and incisive analysis of the ways our developing nation evolved cultural practices and attitudes to make ‘disability’ a concept that gave meaning and status to people who have illnesses, industrial injuries, military wounds, or simply the unexpected forms of human variation life presents. Baynton presents us with the familiar history of American modernization as the creation of modern disability, showing us the shifting criteria for what counts a human ‘defect’ and what that means in the lives of people who bear such stigma.” * Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University *“A well-researched, original, and engaging study. Baynton argues that historians of North American immigration have failed to appreciate the importance of disability in the web of immigration restriction. To correct this failure, he maintains that disability joined race, disease, ‘poor physique,’ and poverty to form the ingredients of ‘degeneracy.’ Beautifully written and based on rigorous scholarship, Defectives in the Land will be of great importance and interest to historians of immigration and disability—and beyond.” * James W. Trent, Gordon College *“Defectives in the Land is a supple example of the ways that ‘disability’ has never been a term with a singular or unified meaning, but a term that has been—and continues to be—misused, abused, and exploited by a range of historical actors and institutions for their own ends. By using deliberately loaded conceptual categories—defective, handicapped, ugly, dependent—to organize his chapters, Baynton’s book opens up the deep interrelationships between disability and familiar analytical categories within immigration history, social history, and political history.” * David Serlin, University of California, San Diego *“In this slim volume, Douglas C. Baynton forcefully and convincingly argues that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, U.S. immigration law and policy had as its core purpose the exclusion of “defective” immigrants who failed to meet eugenic standards of physical, mental, and moral fitness. In doing so, he successfully challenges standard historical interpretations. . .It is a “must read” for historians of immigration.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Defective 2 Handicapped 3 Dependent 4 Ugly Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTraces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. The author reveals cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy.

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Book SynopsisThe Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of

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Book SynopsisViolence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.Trade Review“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada

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Book SynopsisViolence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.Trade Review“In bringing together diversely situated experts on institutional violence from across Canada, Population Control offers a serious advance in state-of-the-art research relating to endemic institutional violence in Canada. This collection significantly helps us recognize how care and loathing function across different spatial and temporal locations to structure our social and political responses to unruly populations, not only to advance scholarly knowledge but also to support the afterlives of those who have been institutionalized and provide urgently needed evidence against insidious forms of trans-institutional violence that persists beyond the closure of total institutions.” Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking book, autism expert Chantal Sicile-Kira and her son Jeremy take on the challenge of planning for the full lifespan. Working together and drawing on the insights of others facing the same challenges, they offer real solutions to a host of difficult questions.Trade ReviewPraise for Autism Life Skills: 'Chantal Sicile-Kira has done a beautiful job of putting the voices of many people on the spectrum into one book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Thinking in PicturesTable of ContentsJeremy's Story - Making the Impossible Possible Seeing the Potential of Your Child and Helping Them Realize it Circle of Support - Absolute Necessity of Creating a Support Group Having a Fulfilling Emotional Life Finding the Right Living Arrangements - From In-house Care to Independence The Joy of Learning - Creating the Right Educational Environment Personal Needs: Friends, Relationships, and Love & Sex Search for Normalcy - Gauging Success for Yourself Planning for the Future

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Book SynopsisChallenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.Table of ContentsForeword by Professor Dan Goodley PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM The Project of Ableism Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching& Standpoint Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence& Ontological Envelopment Disability Harm& Wrongful Life Torts Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?

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Book SynopsisA guidebook for career counselors and employers to help them deal productively with LD/ADD adults. This book is useful as a supplementary text for graduate courses in career counseling. It synthesizes the two fields of LD/ADD diagnosis and career assessment into a methodology and provides background knowledge.Table of Contents1: Invisible Handicaps 2: Process and Structure 3: Diagnosis of Language Disability in Adults 4: Memory Problems Visual/Spatial Deficits, and Dyscalculia 5: Emotional and Social Dynamics in the LD Client 6: Cognitive Function in ADD Adults 7: Emotional and Social Dynamics in ADD Adults 8: The Therapeutic Approach to the Career Assessment 9: Methodology for the Career Assessment 10: Personality Assessment of ADD Clients Using the MMPI-2 16 PF, and MBTI Tests 11: Selecting a Good-Fit Job 12: Job Coaching for LD and ADD Clients 13: Case Studies of Clients with Language Disabilities 14: Case Studies of Clients with a Memory Disorder 15: Case Studies of Clients with Attention Deficit Disorder

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Book SynopsisUncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced both successes and challenges because of their health.Trade ReviewUncharted is a crucial and timely collection exploring the lived experiences of scientists with a broad array of disabilities and chronic conditions. Bayer and Serrato Marks, alongside many brilliant contributors, share courageous and moving stories that will challenge and shift the way readers think about disability. The book offers companionship for scientists working under what can be isolating conditions as well as recommendations for improving access in STEM fields. Uncharted is a must-read call to action for scientists and their institutions to ensure a more inclusive and just future for all. -- Faith Kearns, author of Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective EngagementA hopeful, heart-wrenching kaleidoscope of stories. These personal essays vividly share experiences that have been ignored or silenced for too long. The contributors have given us a gift and an opportunity to think broadly and act boldly to support everyone, in all of our unique and changing needs. This expansive collection of first-person stories is a must-read for anyone who cares about scientific research and all the humans who do it. -- Liz Neeley, founder and CEO, LiminalUncharted is full of compelling narratives that illustrate the ingenuity and resilience of disabled scientists as well as the challenges they face, demonstrating the multifacetedness of their lived experiences. -- Lisette E. Torres, senior researcher, TERCAlma C. Schrage’s memoir of her conference-going and research fieldwork as a young, deaf biologist [is] one of the… best pieces in the volume. * Inside Higher Ed *Some of the most validating writing I have ever read. A sobering reminder of just how much work remains to be done in the service of a more accessible and inclusive scientific culture. -- Leslie Berntsen, director of education and research, The Story ColliderHighly recommended. Excellent for starting conversations about disability, bias, and ablism in STEM. * Choice Reviews, the American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Charting the Course, by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato MarksPart I. Getting Underway1. Rolling to Freedom, by Mpho Kgoadi2. Regaining Control, by Jenn Pickering3. Changing Tides: What Does It Mean to Be Blind?, by Maureen J. Hayden4. Dear Cassy, by Sami Chen5. Sea Legs: Working Around Motion Sickness, by Amanda HeidtPart II. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea6. A Safe Space, by Daisy Shearer7. When Fieldwork Doesn’t Work: A Broken Bildungsroman, by Lauren A. White8. Birds, Bees, and Anxieties, by Anonymous 19. My Brown Waterproof Boots, by Skylar Bayer10. Hope Is My Anchor, by Furaha AsaniPart III. Rallying the Crew11. The Place I Rest, by Alma C. Schrage12. Sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better, but That’s OK, Too, by Alexander G. Steele13. Christmas on Rangatira Island, by Sophie Fern14. Living with a Rare Condition, by Sophie Okolo15. Planning the Journey of a Lifetime, by Richard Wendell MankinPart IV. In the Heart of the Maelstrom16. The Butt Balloon, by Anonymous 217. This Is Wallace Alfred Russel Simonis, by Juniper L. Simonis18. The Day That Changed Everything, by Syreeta L. Nolan19. Being the First and Only to Ask, by Amanda O’Brien20. Lost in New Orleans, by Stephanie Schroeder21. Ascending the Cinder Cone, by Divya M. PersaudPart V. Reflections in the Water22. Thinking Beyond the “Social Model of Disability,” by Glyn Everett23. Suffer in Silence or Leave, by Emma Tung Corcoran24. (In)Visibly Eroding Bones, Bodies, and Landscapes, by Leehi Yona25. The Abyss, by Katie Harazin26. Navigating the Curve, by Sunshine Menezes27. Tidy Columns, by Olivia BernardPart VI. I Am the Captain of My Ship28. Broader Impacts, by Jennifer L. Piatek29. Doo hwił hóyéeda . . . : A Lesson Lost in Translation . . . , by Taylor Francisco30. The Ridge, by Gabi Serrato Marks31. Who I Am, by Vincent Martin32. The Best Place for My Hearing Aids Is on My Desk, by Michele CookeConclusion: Aid to NavigationAcknowledgmentsReflection and Discussion QuestionsFurther Reading and ResourcesGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisUncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced both successes and challenges because of their health.Trade ReviewUncharted is a crucial and timely collection exploring the lived experiences of scientists with a broad array of disabilities and chronic conditions. Bayer and Serrato Marks, alongside many brilliant contributors, share courageous and moving stories that will challenge and shift the way readers think about disability. The book offers companionship for scientists working under what can be isolating conditions as well as recommendations for improving access in STEM fields. Uncharted is a must-read call to action for scientists and their institutions to ensure a more inclusive and just future for all. -- Faith Kearns, author of Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective EngagementA hopeful, heart-wrenching kaleidoscope of stories. These personal essays vividly share experiences that have been ignored or silenced for too long. The contributors have given us a gift and an opportunity to think broadly and act boldly to support everyone, in all of our unique and changing needs. This expansive collection of first-person stories is a must-read for anyone who cares about scientific research and all the humans who do it. -- Liz Neeley, founder and CEO, LiminalUncharted is full of compelling narratives that illustrate the ingenuity and resilience of disabled scientists as well as the challenges they face, demonstrating the multifacetedness of their lived experiences. -- Lisette E. Torres, senior researcher, TERCAlma C. Schrage’s memoir of her conference-going and research fieldwork as a young, deaf biologist [is] one of the… best pieces in the volume. * Inside Higher Ed *Some of the most validating writing I have ever read. A sobering reminder of just how much work remains to be done in the service of a more accessible and inclusive scientific culture. -- Leslie Berntsen, director of education and research, The Story ColliderHighly recommended. Excellent for starting conversations about disability, bias, and ablism in STEM. * Choice Reviews, the American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Charting the Course, by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato MarksPart I. Getting Underway1. Rolling to Freedom, by Mpho Kgoadi2. Regaining Control, by Jenn Pickering3. Changing Tides: What Does It Mean to Be Blind?, by Maureen J. Hayden4. Dear Cassy, by Sami Chen5. Sea Legs: Working Around Motion Sickness, by Amanda HeidtPart II. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea6. A Safe Space, by Daisy Shearer7. When Fieldwork Doesn’t Work: A Broken Bildungsroman, by Lauren A. White8. Birds, Bees, and Anxieties, by Anonymous 19. My Brown Waterproof Boots, by Skylar Bayer10. Hope Is My Anchor, by Furaha AsaniPart III. Rallying the Crew11. The Place I Rest, by Alma C. Schrage12. Sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better, but That’s OK, Too, by Alexander G. Steele13. Christmas on Rangatira Island, by Sophie Fern14. Living with a Rare Condition, by Sophie Okolo15. Planning the Journey of a Lifetime, by Richard Wendell MankinPart IV. In the Heart of the Maelstrom16. The Butt Balloon, by Anonymous 217. This Is Wallace Alfred Russel Simonis, by Juniper L. Simonis18. The Day That Changed Everything, by Syreeta L. Nolan19. Being the First and Only to Ask, by Amanda O’Brien20. Lost in New Orleans, by Stephanie Schroeder21. Ascending the Cinder Cone, by Divya M. PersaudPart V. Reflections in the Water22. Thinking Beyond the “Social Model of Disability,” by Glyn Everett23. Suffer in Silence or Leave, by Emma Tung Corcoran24. (In)Visibly Eroding Bones, Bodies, and Landscapes, by Leehi Yona25. The Abyss, by Katie Harazin26. Navigating the Curve, by Sunshine Menezes27. Tidy Columns, by Olivia BernardPart VI. I Am the Captain of My Ship28. Broader Impacts, by Jennifer L. Piatek29. Doo hwił hóyéeda . . . : A Lesson Lost in Translation . . . , by Taylor Francisco30. The Ridge, by Gabi Serrato Marks31. Who I Am, by Vincent Martin32. The Best Place for My Hearing Aids Is on My Desk, by Michele CookeConclusion: Aid to NavigationAcknowledgmentsReflection and Discussion QuestionsFurther Reading and ResourcesGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he''s told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he''s gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will ''cure'' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that''s eTrade ReviewVivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible -- Andrew McMillan * Guardian *A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity * Claire Fuller *The magic of Emmett De Monterey's book is its disarming accessibility. Compulsive reading, unique, this beautifully crafted work is suffused with depth, affection, and remarkable observations. De Monterey is a profoundly gifted writer. * Charlotte Fox Weber *Exploring the reality of growing up gay and disabled in 1980s London, this beautiful memoir is as uplifting as it is devastating, and as funny and wise as it is profound. * iNews *Astonishing, illuminating and enriching. * Matt Cain *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review​"Between Fitness and Death is essential reading for scholars of health, racialization, and law in the world of Atlantic slavery, and it also gestures toward important future directions for scholars of slavery and race, more generally." --Black Perspectives "Bringing together a wide array of sources with carefully crafted interpretive insight, Between Fitness and Death is a tremendous accomplishment. . . . Hunt-Kennedy provides a theoretically innovative framework for future scholarship on how enslaved people in the British Caribbean and beyond perceived of and operated in relation to the disabling power of slavery. Between Fitness and Death deserves wide-readership." --Middle Ground Journal"Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy's Between Fitness and Death is an excellent introduction to disability studies for scholars rooted in histories of slavery and of the Caribbean." --H-Slavery"Between Fitness and Death is an engaging theoretical assessment of the ideology of racial difference in American slavery. It is a helpful contribution to the growing battery of factors that historians must consider when assessing prejudice during the period. . . . Between Fitness and Death<.i> adds fresh insight into the origins of anti-Black racism, as well as a helpful guide to its enduring legacy." --Journal of African American History"A compelling argument that colonial racialization and brutality are significant factors in the history of disability . . . Hunt-Kennedy's fascinating and important study will challenge future academics to look beyond fitness and death and rethink our assumptions about how anti-Black racism and abelism have developed in the Western World." --H-Disability​"In revealing the pervasiveness of disability among enslaved people and the various associations between blackness and disability, Hunt-Kennedy provides a new way of looking at the archives of slavery. Between Fitness and Death furthers our understanding of Caribbean slavery." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History​"Slavery relied on the ever-present humanity of the enslaved. By suggesting a framework of disability, Hunt-Kennedy presents a conceptual shift that centers the human, while showing how the conditions of slavery undermined the abilities of Africans. Required reading for Caribbean scholars and scholars around the globe interested in slavery.”—Sasha Turner, author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica​"Hunt-Kennedy’s innovative take on the connections between disability and bondage underscores how embodiment, ability, and difference combined to shape ideologies of slavery and understandings about who could be enslaved. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intertwined histories of enslavement and race in the Atlantic World."--Jenny Shaw, author of Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference ​"This provocative and powerful study . . . makes important contributions to understanding Caribbean slavery." --Choice

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Book SynopsisExploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail,Trade Review"This original work adds an important new voice to conversations about slavery, disability, and medical history. Exceptional analysis of an understudied topic" --Library Journal (starred review)"Addressing an often-overlooked aspect of the experiences of enslaved people, Barclay intricately examines the connection between racism, disabilities and slavery, as well as the legacy it left behind, in this important and well-researched volume." --Ms. Magazine"The Mark of Slavery is not simply a study of disability discourse. Rather, the book examines disability as both a discourse about race and slavery and as a lived experience affecting the lives of thousands of enslaved people." --Black Perspectives"While many of the racist and ableist discourses seemed to be contradictory and nonsensical, Barclay skillfully demonstrates how each of the narratives work together to create a larger, long-standing co-constitution of Blackness, disability, and dependency. . . . After reading this book, it is near impossible to consider race in America as anything separate from disability and ableism. . . . Compelling." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jenifer Barclay offers us a powerful, deeply researched, and rich study of the meanings of disability in the antebellum South. The sheer breadth of literature that this work speaks to is impressive. . . . The Mark of Slavery is a critical intervention into fields that have ignored or marginalized disability." --American Nineteenth Century History"Barclay's study is a well-researched investigation of nineteenth-century cultural debates on race and the body. Disability scholarship has flourished in recent years, and Barclay's book is a welcome contribution to the field." --Journal of Southern History"Highly recommended." --Choice"Barclay's deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims."--Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology

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Book SynopsisA beautifully told and unique recollection of life as the child of immigrant Jews in the Bronx and as the child of deaf parentsTrade Review"This is a man revealing himself, touched and startled by his act of exposure, discovering and offering the old truth: every life matters. Reminding us of this is what memoir does best. . . . An engrossing contribution to the genre."--Margaret Diehl, New York Times Book Review"Davis's new memoir focuses on how his parents' deafness affected him. He writes frankly about the difficulties he encountered, such as his inability to call his parents when he needed comfort during the night and his having to serve as their interpreter. . . . The writer also infuses his writing with humor and the sense of love and respect he developed for his parents. . . . Davis's descriptions of the richness and complexity of sign language are the most fascinating portions of the book. Highly recommended."--Library Journal"Good memoirs with staying power are hard to find any year. One of this year's very best is . . . My Sense of Silence. Davis succeeds brilliantly in doing many things. His is an outstanding personal and cultural study of deafness as well as a savvy and moving intellectual and political autobiography."--The Bloomsbury Review"A truly poetic reflection flanked by Davis's ambivalent and unresolved childhood. . . . Davis blends so much painstaking detail into his writing, pulling at the reader's emotions as he processes his own odd experience. The book convincingly paints the struggles of a young man who must 'recover the child, deaf-self' that he leaves behind 'merging it with [a] hearing self.'"--The Minnesota Daily"A provocative and personal odyssey of growing up with deaf parents, remarkable for its candor, humor and originality. Davis's memories are passionate and fierce as he pieces together the stories of his family, probing the elusive relationships between childhood and adult life. Highly recommended."--Paul Preston, author of Mother Father Deaf: Living between Sound and Silence and co-director of the National Resource Center for Parents with Disabilities

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLoftis's book does an excellent job of bringing together a range of literary examples and thematizing them as representations of autism. In doing so, and combining this with a very detailed analysis of the works in question, this book contributes a great deal to both disability studies and literary criticism. * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *In examining the concerns and misconceptions that drive depictions of people with ASD, Loftis sheds light on the representations that can lead to discrimination against those who have related conditions. * Library Journal *It is to be hoped that this engrossing book will encourage discussion and further work about fictional characters portrayed as autistic, even if not labeled as such. It is a book that will be of value to everyone interested in neurodiversity and the dangers of stereotyping. Itshould also appeal to any one who wants a different perspective on a favorite character. It is highly recommended reading. * H-Disability *Very useful for those interested in disability studies, cultural studies, and literature. . . . Recommended. * Choice *An important and necessary early step in bringing the study of autism into the field of literary studies. * Disability Studies Quarterly *A groundbreaking examination of autism. * Disability & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy2. The Autistic Savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the Neurodiversity Movement3. The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon4. The Autistic Gothic: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, and The Sound and the Fury 5. The Autistic Child Narrator: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time6. The Autistic Label: Diagnosing (and Un-Diagnosing) the Girl with the Dragon TattooAfterwordNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDisabled persons' struggles for rights and recognitionTrade ReviewThis ethnography is quite accessible and would be appropriate for courses in applied, medical, and development anthropology, anthropology of globalization and cultural change, as well as to historians of disability, and gender studies scholars and students. * Anthropology of East Europe Review *Crafted with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, [this] volume will be of interest to historians of disability, Europe, and the Soviet Union, as well as to cultural and medical anthropologists. Written with accessibility in mind, Phillips weaves theoretical concerns into narrative accounts and historical and ethnographic detail. May 2011 * H-Disability *[This] entire study is a much-needed and welcome addition to the postsocialist literature and would fit well in anthropology, as well as interdisciplinary, courses on Russian and Eastern European studies. * somatosphere.net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Disability and Mobilizing Citizenship in Postsocialism1. A Parallel World2. Out of History3. Disability Rights and Disability Wrongs4. Regeneration5. Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of "Posts"ConclusionAppendix I: Notes on Terminology and MethodsAppendix II: List of Abbreviations NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides an integration of feminist theory with disability studiesTrade Review"Puts feminist theory and disability studies into conversation with one another, not simply to make for an 'additive' approach, but to transform both fields of inquiry." —Diane Herndl, Iowa State University"Hall's... collection is a fascinating and valuable contribution to our thinking, and comes at a crucial point in the consolidation of feminist bioethics' engagement with disability." —International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics"Feminist Disability Studies is a particularly solid collection due to the wealth of cross-genre essays and contributions housed within its pages, and its contributors draw from women’s studies, literary and cultural studies, ethnic studies, philosophy, and many other disciplines." —Global Comment"A volume of the highest scholarly quality that extends both feminist theory and disability studies." —Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University"Feminist disability Studies... should be required reading in any course that deals with [femiminsm and disability]." —Feminist Collections"Each of the essays in this collection offers a valuable contribution in its own right. Read together, they make a strong case for the value, indeed necessity, of including disability perspectives in future feminist scholarship." —American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsReimagining Disability and Gender through Feminist Disability Studies: An Introduction / Kim Q. HallPart 1. Toward a Theoretical Framework for Feminist Disability Studies1. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson2. Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question of Disability / Ellen SamuelsPart 2. Refiguring Literature3. Invisible Disability: Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen / Susannah B. Mintz4. Revisiting the Corpus of the Madwoman: Further Notes toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Mental Illness / Elizabeth J. DonaldsonPart 3. Interrogating Fitness: Nation, Identity, and Citizenship5. The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and Disability in Wartime / Nirmala Erevelles6. Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of Rehabilitation / Jennifer C. James7. Revising the Subject: Disability as "Third Dimension" in Clear Light of Day and You Have Come Back / Cindy LaCom8. A Heritage of Ableist Rhetoric in American Feminism from the Eugenics Period / Sharon Lamp and W. Carol CleighPart 4. Sexual Agency and Queer Feminist Futures9. Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency / Abby Wilkerson10. Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians / Alison KaferPart 5. Inclusions, Exclusions, and Transformations11. Disparate but Disabled: Fat Embodiment and Disability Studies / April Herndon12. Chronic Illness and Educational Equity: The Politics of Visibility / Karen Elizabeth Jung13. Res(Crip)ting Feminist Theater through Disability Theater: Selections from the DisAbility Project / Ann M. Fox and Joan LipkinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion.Trade Review“Cherney shows how the powerful but mostly invisible rhetoric of ableism shapes beliefs about disability. Carefully argued case studies—from The Exorcist, to the cochlear implant debate, to the Casey Martin controversy—illustrate how ableism operates through the warrants of ‘deviance is evil,’ ‘normal is natural,’ ‘body is able’ and across epistemic, ideological, and visual dimensions. They form the heart of the book, making it accessible and engaging for use in an undergraduate rhetoric or disability studies course.”—Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson,coeditor of Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture“As illustrated in this rich examination of ableism in Western society, ableism’s tendency to adapt to different time periods and zeitgeists while naturalizing itself through rhetorical repetition means that Cherney’s study heralds a new field of inquiry that takes ableism, geographical specificity, and rhetoric as its nexus.”—Dominique Salas The Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Ableism2. Fearing Disability and the Possession Narrative3. Ableism and the Cochlear Implant Debate4. Sport as Ableist Institution5. A Rhetorical Model of Disability Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion.Trade Review“Cherney shows how the powerful but mostly invisible rhetoric of ableism shapes beliefs about disability. Carefully argued case studies—from The Exorcist, to the cochlear implant debate, to the Casey Martin controversy—illustrate how ableism operates through the warrants of ‘deviance is evil,’ ‘normal is natural,’ ‘body is able’ and across epistemic, ideological, and visual dimensions. They form the heart of the book, making it accessible and engaging for use in an undergraduate rhetoric or disability studies course.”—Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson,coeditor of Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture“As illustrated in this rich examination of ableism in Western society, ableism’s tendency to adapt to different time periods and zeitgeists while naturalizing itself through rhetorical repetition means that Cherney’s study heralds a new field of inquiry that takes ableism, geographical specificity, and rhetoric as its nexus.”—Dominique Salas The Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Ableism2. Fearing Disability and the Possession Narrative3. Ableism and the Cochlear Implant Debate4. Sport as Ableist Institution5. A Rhetorical Model of Disability Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA fictionalized narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author’s experiences as a quadriplegic following injuries he sustained from an accident.Trade Review“This plainspoken dispatch will appeal to anyone who has confronted unexpected medical challenges, providing an uplifting example of how to build a different but fulfilling life.”—Publishers Weekly“Though concise, Burkart’s ink drawings minimize nothing—neither the insecurities of the draftsman handling his tools, nor the doubts of the protagonist, Piedro.”—Jonas Engelmann Comic: The Magazine of Comics Culture

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