ISBN:
9781439909799
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Disability and Passing : Blurring the Lines of Identity
DDC:
305.9/08
Keywords:
People with disabilities
;
Discrimination against people with disabilities
;
Sociology of disability
;
Group identity
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Passing-an act usually associated with disguising race-also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear ""normal"" or a person falsely claims a disability to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue. The editors and contributors to this volume explore the intersections of disability, race, gender, and sexuality as these various aspects of identity influence each other and make id
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors,Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability; 3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life,Literature, and Public Discourse; 4 The Menstrual Masquerade; 5 "I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb":Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in theAntebellum American South; 6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People toSit Next to You on the Bus; 7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport; 8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing andIntellectual Disability
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Growing Up to Become Hearing:Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationContributors; Index
Note:
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