Barriers and belonging : personal narratives of disability /
Personal narratives of disability
edited by Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan, and Alison Quaggin Harkin.
- vii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Laying the groundwork : -- Part II. Families, adaptive living, and reorienting expectation : -- Part III. Disability and communication : -- Part IV. Mapping complex relations : -- Part V. Identity, resistance and community : -- Part VI. Theories and lives : -- -- Introduction: Entering the field / Laying the groundwork : -- From poison ivy to live oak: how transferring colleges changed my perception of disability / Speaking madness / Transitioning from one culture to another / Growing up with ADHD / Disability and sports / Contours of ableism and transforming a disabled life / I can dance! / Families, adaptive living, and reorienting expectation : -- Live given and memory lost / Beating the odds: life with an invisible and chronic disability / Benjamin is Benjamin / Conversation with a mother and son: an interview / Taking disability one stage at a time (unless they attack you all at once) / My brother's traumatic brain injury and its effect on me / Disability and communication : -- Voicing disability with disabled voices: reimagining a stuttered identity / Fibromylagia syndrome / ASL in a hearing world / Bumping into things while treading carefully: on narrative, blindness and longing for light / What I wish you would ask: conversations about cerebral palsy / Take a second look / Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan -- Alyse Ritvo -- Shayda Kafai -- Ammol Bhatia -- Joshua Phelps -- Christopher Weingardt -- Zachary A. Richter -- Suzi Vee -- Mycie Lubin -- Elizabeth Allen Campbell -- Joanne de Simone -- Tricia Black, Michael Black, and Leila Monaghan -- Christina Spence) -- Douglas Kidd -- Joshua St. Pierre -- Catherine Graves -- Blake Culley -- Tasha Chemel -- Leig A. Neithardt -- Leslie Johnson Elliott -- Part I. Part II. Part III. Mapping complex relations : -- My name is Anna / Living blind / Shades of shame / Abandoning normalcy / A quiet conflict: post traumatic stress disorder / Brother and sister in arms / Identity, resistance and community : -- Disability, belonging, pride / Deconstructing "accessible" education in academia / Fake it until you make it (or until you find your place) / My anxiety / Disability, the lure of escapism, and making the invisible visible / Discovering the deaf identity / Theories and lives : -- Taking great pains with disability theory / Medicating my socially constructed disability / Flourishing with polio: a spiritual, transformational, and disability studies perspective / Learning to see myself in the mirror / Writing myself into madness and disability studies / Autism isn't speaking: autistic subversion in media and public policy / Afterword: Negotiating the future / Anna Roach -- Caitlin Hernandez -- Emily K. Michael -- Garret R. Cruzan -- Michael T. Salter -- Rachel Anderson -- Allegra Heath-Stout -- Nancy La Monica -- Megan L. Coggins -- Susan Macri -- Suzanne Walker -- Denton Mallas -- Adena Rubinstein -- Cindee Calton -- Rodney B. Hume-Dawson -- Adam P. Newman -- Rebekah Morris -- Lydia X.Z. Brown) -- Leila Monaghan. Part IV. Part V. Part VI.
"What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies matters. The editors frame the volume by introducing foundational themes of disability studies. They provide a context of how institutions--including the family, schools, government, and disability peer organizations--shape and transform ideas about disability. They explore how disability informs personal identity, interpersonal and community relationships, and political commitments. In addition, there are heartfelt reflections on living with mobility disabilities, blindness, deafness, pain, autism, psychological disabilities, and other issues. Other essays articulate activist and pride orientations toward disability, demonstrating the importance of reframing traditional narratives of sorrow and medicalization."--Publisher description.
1439913870 9781439913871 1439913889 9781439913888
2016018611
Sociology of disability. People with disabilities. Disabilities.