Becoming Disabled - Forging a Disability View of the World

Becoming Disabled attempts to forge a new view of the world, one that understands disability as a valuable human variation, embraces interdependency, recognizes the disabling impact of existing ideologies and institutions, and works toward the creation of a society that fully includes, supports, and celebrates all forms of human diversity.

List of contents

Part I: Identifying Disability
Chapter 1: Meanings of Disability
Chapter 2: Cripping Disability Identities
Part II: (Re)Imagining Disability
Chapter 3: Disability on Display
Chapter 4: Disability and Inclusive Education
Part III: Locating Disability
Chapter 5: Burrowing Within Disability
Chapter 6: Making Disability Home
Part IV: Mothering Disability
Chapter 7: Disability and the Constructs of Motherhood
Chapter 8: Refiguring Motherhood Through a Disability Lens

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Doolittle Wilson, Jan Doolittle Wilson
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793643711
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-371-1
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Health and Aging in the Margins
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Disability: social aspects, Gay & Lesbian studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Of specific Gay interest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics