Oxford Handbook of Disability History

Herausgeber: Rembis, Michael; Nielsen, Kim; Kudlick, Catherine J

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History features twenty-seven articles that span the diverse, global history of the disabled¿from antiquity to today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 180mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1057g
• ISBN-13: 9780190234959
• ISBN-10: 0190234954
• Artikelnr.: 51254071

Autorenporträt

Michael Rembis is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. He has written or edited many books and articles, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories (2014); and Disabling Domesticity (2016). Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012 after two decades at the University of California, Davis. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France. Kim E. Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo, where she also teaches courses in History and Women's & Gender Studies. She is the author of A Disability History of the United States (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* List of Contributors
* Introduction
* Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen
* Part I. CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS
* 1. The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography
* Kim E. Nielsen
* 2. Disability History and Greco-Roman Antiquity
* C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose
* 3. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages
* Irina Metzler
* 4. Disability in the Pre-modern Arab World
* Sara Scalenghe
* 5. Disability and the History of Eugenics
* Michael Rembis
* 6. Social History of Medicine and Disability History
* Catherine J. Kudlick
* 7. Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability History
* Katherine Ott
* 8. Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability History
* Bess Williamson
* 9. Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian
* Penny Richards and Susan Burch
* Part II. WORK
* 10. Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain
* Daniel Blackie
* 11. Disability and Work in South Asia and the United Kingdom
* Jane Buckingham
* 12. Disability and Work in British West Africa
* Jeff Grischow
* 13. Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United States
* Paul Lawrie
* 14. Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United States
* Audra Jennings
* Part III. INSTITUTIONS
* 15. Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education
in Nineteenth-Century Europe
* Pieter Vierestraete and Ylva Söderfeldt
* 16. Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia
and New Zealand
* Catharine Coleborne
* 17. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and
Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New Zealand
* Angela McCarthy
* 18. Institutions for People with Disabilities in North America
* Steven Noll
* Part IV. REPRESENTATIONS
* 19. Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
* David M. Turner
* 20. Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum
Stage
* Jenifer L. Barclay
* 21. Polio and Disability in Cold War Hungary
* Dora Vargha
* 22. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability
in Europe and North America
* Leslie J. Reagan
* 23. Disability in Modern Chinese Cinema
* Steven L. Riep
* Part V. MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITIES
* 24. Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf
Communities
* Joseph J. Murray
* 25. The Disability Rights Movement in the United States
* Lindsey Patterson
* 26. The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the
United States
* Regina Kunzel
* 27. Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of War
* David A. Gerber
* Index