{"product_id":"redefining-disability-9789004512696","title":"Redefining Disability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reality of disability—of what it means to be disabled—has primarily been written by non-disabled people. Disability and disabled individuals are often described with pity, presented as burdens, or are background figures in larger non-disabled narratives. Redefining Disability challenges the outsider-dominated approach to disability by centering the disabled experience.    This edited volume, featuring all disabled authors and creators, combines traditional academic works with personal reflections, visual art, and poetry. These works address disability and race, sexuality and disability, disability cultures, accommodation, self-diagnosis, and how we manage the obstacles ableist institutions place in our way. The authors address a variety of disabilities, including sensory, chronic pain, mobility, developmental disorders, and mental illness. It is through these testimonies that we hope to redefine disability on our terms; to clearly state that disability is not a bad word, and that all disabled lives have value.    Redefining Disability is interdisciplinary, with broad application for undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, or to read for pleasure. Each entry contains discussion questions and\/or activities for educators to use in the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Redefining Disability:  Redefining Disability offers a unique and vivid combination of lucid explanations and evocative accounts. Featuring essay, narrative, poetry, and photography, this outstanding collection opens a creative window into the richness of disabled experience and calls out systemic ableism that radically diminishes the lives of disabled folks. This provocative, insightful book is essential reading for anyone committed to the work of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and access. - Laura L. Ellingson, PhD, Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J. Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University and author of Embodiment in Qualitative Research    Redefining Disability brilliantly takes readers on a tour through disabled people's lives. It skillfully talks frankly and directly to readers through a delightful array of short and pithy chapters covering expansive topics such as disability and pets, the COVID-19 pandemic, disclosure in higher ed, and being chronically ill. There are photographs and poems, short essays and longer ones. It’s at times emotionally raw and other times fun. To make this book extra-teachable, each chapter ends with discussion questions. A celebration of the act of telling disabled people’s stories, Redefining Disability is a must-read. - Laura Mauldin, PhD, NIC, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and author of Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children    Redefining Disability is a collection 100% shaped by disabled people, not just through the individual chapters and the perspectives contained in the book, but all the way through editing and indexing. The book takes aim at ableism and discrimination against disabled people through critique, with humour, with powerful imagery and art, with indelible writing, and does so from a diverse range of perspectives. But the book, its authors and editors, are also very intentional about accessibility, modeling the values it promotes with a clear and engaging introduction, through plain language and careful explanations and definitions, and with terrific discussion questions. The result is a book that could be taught in high school, College or University, but also is distinctly non-academic in its appeal. Redefining Disability captures and conveys disability culture and community more successfully, accessibly, and compellingly than any other book you could pick up. - Jay Dolmage, PhD, Professor of English, University of Waterloo and author of Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowledgments  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Paul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber    1 Existing in a Mortal Form and Other Disabling Experiences   E. J. K. Brimner and R. McGuire  2 Disabled Humans and Our Non-Human Animal Companions   Paul D. C. Bones    Pet Profile: Charlie   Aparna Nair  3 Disability Discourse Stuck in a Black\/White Binary: Embodying a Black and Disabled Identity as a Mixed-Race Person   Cassandra Lovelock  4 Plum Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum   Ellen Samuels  5 Disability Aesthetics: A Crip Artistry Manifesto   Aurora Berger  6 Life on the Line   Aurora Berger  7 Finding My Way in a Society Where I Don’t Fit   Jill Richardson    Pet Profile: Mac   Valerie and Chase Novack  8 Misfit in the Academy: Succeeding as a Visually Impaired Scholar in Australia   Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes    Pet Profile: Mudkip   Ari  9 Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic Dialogue about the Meaning of Disability Justice among People Labelled\/with Intellectual Disability   Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans  10 Inspiration Porn and Desperation Porn: Disrupting the Objectification of Disability in Media  Kara B. Ayers and Katherine A. Reed    Pet Profile: Scribbles   Melanie Coughlin  11 Tap Tap Tap   Marie Gagnon  12 Adaptation from the Margins: Toward a Crip Theatre   Christopher Bryant    Pet Profile: Pepper   Brian  13 Diagnosis Limbo   Danielle Barber    Pet Profile: Luther \u0026amp; Layla   Danielle Barber  14 Successful Sad   Vanessa Ellison    Pet Profile: Monkey   Emily Dall’Ora Warfield  15 Ddeaf Adjacency: Liminal Conditions of Not Hearing   Megan Marshall  16 S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear | Silicone Injections: In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and English   Raymond Luczak  17 Utensils and Fire   Jessica Spears Williams  18 Seeing Brains: Shakespeare, Autism, and Self-Identification   Nicholas R. Helms    Pet Profile: Pike Trickleg   Lauren (aka L.W. Salinas)  19 Hot Girl Bummer: Achieving Disabled Sexual Liberation in an Ableist World   Katherine O’Connell    Pet Profile: Abacus   Kimberly C. Merenda  20 Selected Poems   Jessi Aaron    Pet Profile: Opal, Orbit, \u0026amp; Ruby   Aubree Evans  21 Maybe Do Talk to Strangers on the Internet? An Interview with Corin de Parsons Frietas   Corin Parsons de Frietas (with Paul D. C. Bones)    Pet Profile: Finn \u0026amp; Bear   Corin Parsons de Freitas  22 Finding Empowerment in the Middle: Navigating Hidden Disabilities in Academia   Summer M. Jackson    Pet Profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco)   Summer M. Jackson  23 Taking Center Stage in the Face of Shame and Scars   Jasmine (Jaz) Gray    Pet Profile: Aisling \u0026amp; Truthe   Jennifer Stahl  24 Assistive Tech, Assertive Tech   Cole Sorensen  25 Modern Day Changelings: On Being an Autistic Parent of an Autistic Child   Alison Kelly  26 Stone, Water, Land, Spine   Elizabeth Glass    Pet Profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys \u0026amp; Spartacus the Mighty   Jessica Smartt Gullion  27 Cancer Isn’t Like a Movie, But If It Was It’d Be a Horror Flick   Terri Juneau Eklund    Pet Profile: Bacon \u0026amp; Pancake   Terri Juneau Eklund  28 “It’s Meant to Be a Hazing Process”: Deciphering Ableism Surrounding Academic Accommodations   Corey Reutlinger    Pet Profile: Captain Jack Harkness \u0026amp; Pippa Millicent Tiny Panther   Tara Elliot  29 Night of the Living Ableds: Disability, Representation, and Horror Film   Paul D. C. Bones    Pet Profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, \u0026amp; Inara Bacon   Paul D. C. Bones  30 A Bright Green: After Lou Ferrigno, A Deaf Bodybuilder Who Played the Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)   Raymond Luczak  31 Manifesto   The Committee for the Sick and Useless","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210841907543,"sku":"9789004512696","price":110.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/redefining-disability-9789004512696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}