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Book SynopsisFeaturing 13 essays, this collection unites the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. The contributors span a range of academic fields, including English, education, history and sociology.
Trade Review"This is a needed book, with a much-needed focus...to further the argument put forth in disability studies that 'disability' is a socially-constructed label and that the material circumstances of 'disabled' people's lives are closely tied to 'non-disabled' society's construction of those lives. It also argues for the agency of the disabled: for their right to speak for themselves." - Patricia A. Dunn, author of Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies
Table of ContentsJames C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, "Disability, Rhetoric, and the Body" Martha Stoddard Holmes, "Working (with) the Rhetoric of Affliction" Catherine Prendergast, "On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability" Miriamne Ara Krummel, "Am I MS?" G. Thomas Couser, "Conflicting Paradigms" Nirmala Erevelles, "In Search of the Disabled Subject" Brenda Jo Brueggemann, "Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric" Deshae E. Lott, "Going to Class with (Going to Clash with?) the Disabled Person" Hannah Joyner, "Signs of Resistance" Ellen L. Barton, "Textual Practices of Erasure" Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, "Putting Disability in Its Place: It's Not a Joking Matter" Emily F. Nye, "The Rhetoric of AIDS" Beth Franks, "Gutting the Golden Goose"
