Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

ISBN-13: 9781032189765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

Micky Lee; Frank Rudy Cooper; Pat Reeve

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.