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Book SynopsisThe reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. This book focuses on the ways gender influences popular discussion and understanding of autism's causes and effects.
Trade ReviewRSA Book Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2015.
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Autism and Gender is the book I was waiting for someone to write, and Jordynn Jack's insightful treatment of this timely, complex topic is a joy to read. Among its many strengths are its beautiful, well organized, easy-to-read prose, its breadth of coverage of the topic, and its careful, judicious tone."
--Anna Kirkland, author of
Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood"Jack's perceptive book proves the persuasive power of autism's characters."--
Women's Review of Books"Jack, a rhetorician, has written the first book-length examination of the role of gender in autism… a targeted and historically rich analysis of how different characters inform and shape autism discourse, offering a fruitful contribution to understandings of gender and autism spectrum disorders."--
somatosphere.net "A book replete with important ideas that could easily be translated into verifiable hypotheses to be tested using representative samples and traditional methodology. Recommended."--
Choice"
Autism and Gender is timely, thoroughly researched, and aggravating in all the right ways. . . . From beginning to end, Jack's rhetorical history of autism admirably balances dominant biomedical perspectives with marginalized voices and beliefs."--
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
