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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on …

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best c…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other …

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; becau…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the culture…

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Disability History -volume 12

Taube und schwerhörige Menschen sind eine oft übersehene gesellschaftliche Minderheit, die von der hörenden Mehrheit vorrangig durch ihre Art der Kommunikation getrennt sind - nämlich durch Gebärdensprach…

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Elizabeth Evans, Stefanie Reher
Disability and Political Representation

Disability and Political Representation explores how disabled people experience the various stages and aspects of the representation process.

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Matt Malzkuhn, Ted Supalla
Home Movies Hardly Silent

Home Movies Hardly Silent is an in-depth study and analysis of Deaf-made home movies during the silent era of amateur filmmaking (1925-1970s), showing how Deaf people used film technology to textualize si…

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Amanda Cachia
The Agency of Access

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by moving away from representations of disability. She argues that they instead create…

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Amanda Cachia
The Agency of Access

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by moving away from representations of disability. She argues that they instead create…

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Natalie Prizel
Victorian Ethical Optics

Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the bodies of others, particularly those bodies which were aberrant, deformed, and disabled.

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Anja Werner
'Deaf History' als Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte -volume 7

Seit 1945 gab es in westlichen Ländern und der Sowjetunion neue Forschungsimpulse zur Kommunikation gehörloser Menschen, die u.a. über internationale Konferenzen der UNESCO und des Weltverbands der Gehörl…

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Jonathan Raban
Father and Son

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of …

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Anna Myjak-Pycia
Another Modernism

"Targeting an important gap in design history, Another Modernism sheds light on the unacknowledged contribution of home economists to 20th-century modernist design. In analysing the home economists' conce…

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Autism in Film and Television

An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.

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Janet Harbord,
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characteri…

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Janet Harbord,
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characteri…

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Nancy Johnson James,
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem

"What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gown…

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Anne Wafula-Strike
In My Dreams I Dance

The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024

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