Buch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-0-335-23120-1
Verlag: Open University Press
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
Weitere Infos & Material
Series editor's preface
Introduction
reclaiming language in disability studies
Part one: Personal narratives
Inside aphasia
The wind gets in my way
I am more than my wheels
Depressed and disabled
some discursive problems with mental illness
Narrative identity and the disabled self
Part two: The social creation of disability identity
Why can't you be normal for once in your life? From a problem with no name to the emergency of a new category of difference
Unless otherwise stated
discourses of labelling and identity in coming out
Carving out a place to act
acquired impairment and contested identity
Discourse and identity
disabled children in mainstream high schools
Transforming disability identity through critical literacy and the cultural politics of language
Talking 'tragedy'
identity issues in the parental story of disability
Part three: Cultural discourses
Studying disability rhetorically
Modern slogan, ancient script
disability in the Chinese language
Bodies, brains and behaviour
the return of the three stooges in learning disability
Joseph F. Sullivan and the discourse of 'crippledom' in progressive America
Art and lies? Representations of disability on film
What they don't tell people with learning difficulties
Final accounts and the parasite people
Disability discourse, the principle of optimization and social change
Biographical notes
References
Index.