Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging

✍ Scribed by Nancy J. Hirschmann (editor); Beth Linker (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Civil Disabilities presents original essays by leading figures in disabilities studies who reconsider the meaning of citizenship. Working from a variety of disciplines and approaches, the volume explores the possibilities for imagining a more just and inclusive world for disabled persons.

Civil Disabilities presents original essays by leading figures in disabilities studies who reconsider the meaning of citizenship. Working from a variety of disciplines and approaches, the volume explores the possibilities for imagining a more just and inclusive world for disabled persons.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Disability, Citizenship, and Belonging: A Critical Introduction
1. Homer’s Odyssey: Multiple Disability and The Best Years of Our Lives
2. Defect: A Selective Reinterpretation of American Immigration History
3. The Disremembered Past
4. Integrating Disability, Transforming Disease History: Tuberculosis and Its Past
5. Screening Disabilities: Visual Fields, Public Culture, and the Atypical Mind in the Twenty-First Century
6. Social Confluence and Citizenship: A View from the Intersection of Music and Disability
7. Our Ancestors the Sighted: Making Blind People French and French People Blind, 1750–1991
8. Citizenship and the Family: Parents of Children with Disabilities, the Pursuit of Rights, and Paternalism
9. Cognitive Disability, Capability Equality, and Citizenship
10. Invisible Disability: Seeing, Being, Power
11. Disability Trouble
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Acknowledgments