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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. """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" Zusammenfassung Why passing is a crucial concept in disability studies Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1 IntroductionJeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of DisabilityDaniel J. Wilson3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public DiscourseJeffrey A. Brune4 The Menstrual MasqueradeDavid Linton5 “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American SouthDea H. Boster6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the BusPeta Cox7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and SportMichael A. Rembis8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual DisabilityAllison C. Carey9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationKristen C. HarmonContributorsIndex...
