Full Description
This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.
Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed people's experiences of their bodies and their fight for substantive equality. Understanding these processes requires acknowledging the tension between social construction and embodiment as well as centering the intersection of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, class, gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on.
Scholars and researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it accessible and informative.
Contents
1.Introduction: Dis/abilities at the Intersections Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Pat Reeve. 2.The Art of Regarding Still Life Pam Mullins. 3.Embodiment's Contributions to Appreciating Life with Disability and to Advancing Justice Mary Crossley. 4.Subjects of Industry: Craft Therapy, Its Photography, and Healing American Soldiers of World War 1 Jennifer Way. 5.Chapter 5 - Medical Discourses on Dis/ability in State Socialist Romania: a Critical Genealogy Radu-Harald Dinu. 6.Embodied Inequalities: Intersections of Disabilities and Gender in West Germany (1950-1990) Sebastian Schlund. 7.Policing Dis/ability Eric J. Miller. 8.Reassessing Japanese Radical Feminism from the Vantage Point of Dis/ability Anna Vittinghoff. 9.Sayōnara CP: the First Filmic Representation of the Japanese Disability Right Movement Anne-Lise Mithout. 10.Voltron: Legendary Defender and Compulsory Ablebodiness Lauren Rouse. 11.Corrective Lens: Dis/abilities and the Materiality of Media Micky Lee. 12.Disability and Race in American History: Rhetoric and Reality in the Civil War and Post-Emancipation South Jenifer Barclay. 13.Bending the Laws of Nature: DNA Literacy and the Coding of the Perfect Human Being Raphaela Tkotzyk and Kim Carina Hebben. 14.Deconstructing Rules for Proof of Cognitive Impairments Tom Lininger. 15.So that playing to win is not playing to die: Constructing Legal Recourse for Athletes with Sickle Cell Trait Laboring in the Actor-Networks of the Brown Commons Madeleine Plasencia.
