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Civil disabilities : citizenship, membership, and belonging /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Hirschmann, Nancy J.; Linker, Beth
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2015]
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism
Subjects:
Citizenship > United States.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Social integration > United States.
People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States.
People with disabilities > United States > Social conditions.
Political Science, other.
Political science.
Social sciences.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812290530
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9780812290530
Index Number: HV1568
CLC: D771.286.9
Contents: Frontmatter --
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 --
Contributors --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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