Semiotics and dis/ability : interrogating categories of difference /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | viii, 287 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural studies Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4462723 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Linda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener
- Pt. I. Theoretical and Cultural Framing
- 1. Engaging Anthropology in Disability Studies / Devva Kasnitz and Russell P. Shuttleworth
- 2. Searching for the Cure: Virtual Disability and Collective Action in an Electronic Support Group / Gerald Gold
- 3. View From the Ivory Tower: Academics Constructing Disability / Robin M. Smith
- 4. Symbolic Contexts, Embodied Sensitivities, and the Lived Experience of Sexually Relevant Interpersonal Encounters for a Man with Severe Cerebral Palsy / Russell P. Shuttleworth
- Shareholder Commentary / John C. Rossiter
- Pt. II. Personal Narratives of Confronting Disability: Insider/Outsider Embedding and Disembedding
- 5. Semiotics of Accessibility and the Culture of Disability / N. Kagendo Mutua
- 6. A Mother's Construction of the Semiotic Self / Nancy Stockall
- 7. Advocating for Full Inclusion: Mothers' Narratives / Asha Saini
- Shareholder Commentary / Mara Sapon-Shevin
- Pt. III. The Semiosis of Engagement: At/In/About and With
- 8. Personal Assistance Services and Youth in Transition / Marissa Nicole Shaw
- 9. Both Emic and Etic: A View of the World Through the Lens of the Ugly Duckling / Robertta Thoryk, Patricia Roberts and Angela M. Battistone
- 10. The Miller Method: An Early Intervention Program to Help Young Children with Autism Make Meaning in Their Lives / Christine E. Cook
- 11. The Meaning of Disability for Grandparents of Young Children with Special Needs / Elizabeth Lane Brennan and Philip L. Safford
- Shareholder Commentary / Tim P. Karash
- Epilogue: After and Into the Narrative Frame / Linda J. Rogers, Beth Blue Swadener and Tembinkosi Nyangiwe
- End Notes: Semiotically Digesting Dis/ability / Floyd Merrell and Myrdene Anderson.