Disabling Domesticity

ISBN-13: 9781137487681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 355 str.

Michael A. Rembis

Opis

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family. Contributors to Disabling Domesticity focus on the varied domestic sites where intimate - and interdependent - human relations are formed and maintained. Analyzing domesticity through the lens of disability forces readers to think in new ways about family and household forms, care work, an ethic of care, reproductive labor, gendered and generational conflicts and cooperation, ageing, dependence, and local and global economies and political systems, in part by bringing the notion of interdependence, which undergirds all of the chapters in this book, into the foreground.

Spis treści

Home:

1. From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity - Jennifer Thorn

2. Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing - Beth Tauke and Korydon Smith

3. The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America - Laura Micheletti Puaca

4. Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cultural Politics of Accessible Housing in the United States - Andrew Marcum

Care:

5. A Feminist Technoscientific Approach to Disability and Caregiving in the Family - Laura Mauldin

6. Inevitable Intersections: Care, Work, and Citizenship - Grace Chang

7. Reclaiming the Sexual Rights of LGBTQ People with Attendant Care Dependent Mobility Impairments - Les Gallo-Silver, David S. Bimbi, and Mike Rembis

8. “Everybody Has Different Levels of Why They Are Here”: Deconstructing Domestication in the Nursing Home Setting - Katie Aubrecht and Janice Keefe

Family:

9. Contesting the Neoliberal Affects of Disabled Parenting: Towards a Relational Emergence of Disability - Kelly Fritsch

10. The Mad Woman in the Garden: Decolonizing Domesticity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night - Jeffry J. Iovannone

11. Gatekeepers of Normalcy:  The Disablement of Families in the Master Narratives of Psychology - Priya Lalvani

12. Postfeminist Motherhood?: Reading a Differential Deployment of Identity in American Women’s HIV Narratives - Allyson Day

13. Melting Down the Family Unit: A Neuroqueer Critique of Table-Readiness - Zachary A. Richter

O autorze

Michael Rembis is Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA. He has authored or edited many books, articles, and book chapters, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories co-edited with Susan Burch (2014); and The Oxford Handbook of Disability History co-edited with Kim Nielsen and Catherine Kudlick (forthcoming).