{"product_id":"signs-of-disability-9781479811144","title":"Signs of Disability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can we learn to notice the signs of disability?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped deaf person in area road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms \u003ci\u003edis\u003c\/i\u003e-attention.\u003cbr\u003eTo tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomenaincluding disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a set of thirty-three research i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis engaging, accessible book builds on Stephanie Kerschbaum’s already-award-\u003cbr\u003e winning scholarship on difference and discourse, constructing new research methods\u003cbr\u003e and approaches, but also building community on these pages. \u003ci\u003eSigns of Disability \u003c\/i\u003eoffers\u003cbr\u003e an incredibly generative vocabulary for understanding the ways that disability matters:\u003cbr\u003e how we mark and signal it, how we ignore and hide it, how we powerfully inhabit and\u003cbr\u003e embody it through stories. \u003ci\u003eSigns of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e is a transformative book.\u003c\/p\u003e * Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lovely, powerful read, \u003ci\u003eSigns of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e makes consequential, engaging, and\u003cbr\u003e evocative contributions to scholarship in disability studies and in rhetorical studies. The\u003cbr\u003e book’s theoretical and methodological interventions are significant and it offers cogent\u003cbr\u003e readings of texts, material culture, bodies, and more. Stephanie Kerschbaum tells\u003cbr\u003e powerful stories and draws readers deeply into the material life of disability and its\u003cbr\u003e signs.\u003c\/p\u003e * Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison *","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409053065559,"sku":"9781479811144","price":55.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479811144.jpg?v=1730505260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/signs-of-disability-9781479811144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}