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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.
Sommario
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
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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.
Riassunto
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.
