Becoming Disabled

Forging a Disability View of the World

AvJan Doolittle Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world. In Becoming Disabled, Wilson examines disability in ways that challenge dominant discourses and systems that shape and reproduce disability stigma and discrimination. It is to create alternative meanings that understand disability as a valuable human variation, that embrace human interdependency, and that recognize the necessity of social supports for individual flourishing and happiness. From her own disability view of the world, Wilson critiques the disabling impact of language, media, medical practices, educational systems, neoliberalism, mothering ideals, and other systemic barriers. And she offers a powerful vision of a society in which all forms of human diversity are included and celebrated and one in which we are better able to care for ourselves and each other.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-28
Mått:162 x 238 x 30 mm
Vikt:662 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Health and Aging in the Margins
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793643698

Utforska kategorier

HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jan Doolittle Wilson is Wellspring Associate Professor of Gender Studies and History, Co-Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Tulsa.

Recensioner i media

This is an important book if only because it brings neurodiversity into the discourse on disability. Additionally, the chapter on mothering puts this book into the genre of parents writing about mothering (sometimes fathering) their disabled children. Indeed, the author writes lovingly about her experience of mothering Zoey. It is more than simple biography of neurodiversity within the family: it is a disability studies text…. General readers through graduate students; professionals.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Identifying DisabilityChapter 1: Meanings of DisabilityChapter 2: Cripping Disability IdentitiesPart II: (Re)Imagining DisabilityChapter 3: Disability on DisplayChapter 4: Disability and Inclusive EducationPart III: Locating DisabilityChapter 5: Burrowing Within DisabilityChapter 6: Making Disability HomePart IV: Mothering DisabilityChapter 7: Disability and the Constructs of MotherhoodChapter 8: Refiguring Motherhood Through a Disability Lens