Gendering Disability
by Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison
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Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets of practices and ways of being. Contributors to this innovative collection explore the intersection of gender and disability in the arts, consumer culture, healing, the personal and private realms, and the appearance of disability in the public sphere--both in public fantasies and in public activism. show more Beginning as separate enterprises that followed activist and scholarly paths, gender and disability studies have reached a point where they can move beyond their boundaries for a common landscape to inspire new areas of inquiry. Whether from a perspective in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, or arts, the shared subject matter of gender and disability studies--the body, social and cultural hierarchy, identity, discrimination and inequality, representation, and political activism--insistently calls for deeper conversation. This volume provides fresh findings not only about the discrimination practiced against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between these two categories. show lessTags
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Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, USA. Her publications include Modern Empires: A Reader (2017), Women's Studies: The Basics (2019, 2nd ed.), and The Gender of History (2000), among others. She is also the general editor of Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008), show more which won the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Work Award. show less
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- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Sociology, General Nonfiction
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- 305.9 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by occupation and miscellaneous social statuses
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- HV1569.3 .W65 .G46 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Protection, assistance and relief Special classes People with disabilities
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