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Bonnie G. Smith - Gendering Disability - 9780813533735 - V9780813533735
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Gendering Disability

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Description for Gendering Disability Paperback. Disability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories. Editor(s): Smith, Bonnie G.; Hutchison, Beth. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.

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. 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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813533735
SKU
V9780813533735
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bonnie G. Smith
Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and a past director of the University's Institute for Research on Women. Beth Hutchison is assistant director of the Institute.

Reviews for Gendering Disability
"This compilation is a pioneering study of the 'borderlands' of the body. The diverse chapters speak to activists and scholars, as well as those less familiar with the issues of disability studies and gender studies. It will serve the academic and activist communities well, encouraging new insights into the ways we define ourselves and others."
Susan Burch
author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War
"Gendering Disability is among the most intellectually stimulating books I have read in years. The stunning breadth of the discussion evokes personal experience with disability, elucidates the historical and social meanings of bodily differences, and places disability within other theoretical frameworks."
Alice Kessler-Harris
author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizens

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