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American Studies

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HandiLand

The Crippest Place on Earth

By Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Spotlights the heroes and heroines with disabilities in young people’s literature as it also imagines an ideal society for youngsters with disabilities

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education

By Jay T. Dolmage
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Education, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Negotiating Disability

Disclosure and Higher Education

By Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones
Subjects: Disability Studies, Education, Higher Education, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Thought-provoking essays that explore how disability is named, identified, claimed, and negotiated in higher education settings
 

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

Mad at School

Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

By Margaret Price
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Composition
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

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