Disability Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 1999
240 pages
978-0-335-23120-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book draws upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, cultural representation, ethnography and contextual studies, international contributors seek to emphasize the multi-dimensional and multi-functional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability and to locate disability more firmly within contemporary mainstream social and cultural theory.
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Mairian Corker | Sally French
Disability Discourse
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02/1999
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Series editor's preface
- Chapter 1 Reclaiming discourse in disability studies
- Part 1: Personal narratives
- Chapter 2 Inside aphasia
- Chapter 3 The wind gets in my way
- Chapter 4 I am more than my wheels
- Chapter 5 Depressed and disabled: some discursive problems with mental illness
- Chapter 6 Narrative identity and the disabled self
- Part 2: The social creation of disability identity
- Chapter 7 'Why can't you be normal for once in your life?' From a 'problem with no name'to the emergence of a new category of difference
- Chapter 8 Unless otherwise stated: discourses of labelling and identity in coming out
- Chapter 9 Carving out a place to act: acquired impairment and contested identity
- Chapter 10 Discourse and identity: disabled children in mainstream high schools
- Chapter 11 Transforming disability identity through critical literacy and the cultural politics of language
- Chapter 12 Talking 'tragedy': identity issues in the parental story of disability
- Part 3: Cultural discourses
- Chapter 13 Studying disability rhetorically
- Chapter 14 Modern slogan, ancient script: impairment and disability in the Chinese language
- Chapter 15 Bodies, brains, behaviour: the return of the three stooges inlearning disability
- Chapter 16 Joseph F. Sullivan and the discourse of 'crippledom' in progressive America
- Chapter 17 Art and lies? Representations of disability on film
- Chapter 18 What they don't tell disabled people with learning difficulties
- Chapter 19 Final accounts and the parasite people
- Chapter 20 New disability discourse, the principle of optimization and social change
- References
- Index
- Back cover
