Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity
Published on 17. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-4399-0980-5 (ISBN)
Description
Why passing is a crucial concept in disability studies
Reviews / Votes
"Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson's collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf." --Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan"Disability and Passing is innovative in its use of disability to analyze both the acts and ideologies of passing from a wide range of theoretical, topical, and disciplinary perspectives. The essays are strong and smart-some are brilliant."--Kim E. Nielsen, Professor of Disability Studies and History, University of Toledo, and author of A Disability History of the United States
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-0980-5 (9781439909805)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jeffrey A. Brune is Assistant Professor of History at Gallaudet University. Currently he is working on his monograph, Disability Stigma and the Modern American State.
Daniel J. Wilson is Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. He is author of several books, including Polio: The Biography of a Disease, and Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors.
Daniel J. Wilson is Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. He is author of several books, including Polio: The Biography of a Disease, and Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors.
Content
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability
Daniel J. Wilson
3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public Discourse
Jeffrey A. Brune
4 The Menstrual Masquerade
David Linton
5 "I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb": Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South
Dea H. Boster
6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus
Peta Cox
7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport
Michael A. Rembis
8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual Disability
Allison C. Carey
9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf Education
Kristen C. Harmon
Contributors
Index
1 Introduction
Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability
Daniel J. Wilson
3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public Discourse
Jeffrey A. Brune
4 The Menstrual Masquerade
David Linton
5 "I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb": Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South
Dea H. Boster
6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus
Peta Cox
7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport
Michael A. Rembis
8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual Disability
Allison C. Carey
9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf Education
Kristen C. Harmon
Contributors
Index