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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism
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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. |