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Introducing disability aesthetics -- The aesthetics of human disqualification -- What can disability studies learn from the culture wars? -- Disability and art vandalism -- Trauma art : injury and wounding in the media age -- Words stare like a glass eye : disability in literary and visual studies -- Conclusion : disability in the mirror of art

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Background and History -- Introduction -- Institutionalization -- Eugenics -- Charity -- Disability Rights Movement -- Early History -- World War II to the Americans with Disabilities Act -- Post-Americans with Disabilities Act -- References -- 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions -- Introduction -- Access -- Health Care -- Public Transportation -- Housing -- Public Education -- Employment Opportunities -- The New Eugenics -- References -- 3 Perspectives -- Introduction -- The Contested Evolution of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- "We Can Speak Out the Way We Want": Self-Advocacy, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, and the Sociopolitical Legacies of the Disability Rights Movement -- The Neurodiversity Movement -- Restricted Reproductive and Parental Rights: Challenging What Makes a Person "Fit" to Parent -- Starlight Studio and Art Gallery -- The Contradictory Status of Disabled Veterans -- Violence against People with Disabilities: Still Missing from the Conversation -- Deaf Children and Cochlear Implants -- Gender, Madness, and Commitment -- Minority Students with Disabilities and the School to Prison Pipeline -- 4 Profiles -- ADAPT -- American Federation of the Physically Handicapped -- Clifford Beers (March 30, 1876-July 9, 1943) -- Justin W. Dart, Jr. (August 29, 1930-June 22, 2002) -- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund -- Judy Heumann (1947-) -- Jerry's Orphans -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) -- National Association for Retarded Children -- National Association of the Deaf -- National Black Disability Coalition -- National Center for College Students with Disabilities and Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring -- National Council on Disability -- National Down Syndrome Society -- National Federation of the Blind.

Disability Studies of Rhetoric -- Interchapter: An Archive and Anatomy of Disability Myths -- Rhetorical Histories of Disability -- Imperfect Meaning -- Interchapter: A Repertoire and Choreography of Disability Rhetorics -- Mêtis -- Eating Rhetorical Bodies -- I Did It on Purpose

Introduction -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics -- Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics -- Disability as masquerade -- Disability experience on trial -- A sexual culture for disabled people -- Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien -- Disability and the right to have rights -- Conclusion

Der Themenschwerpunkt greift Forschungsperspektiven auf Behinderung und chronische Krankheit auf, wie sie seit etwa drei Jahrzehnten in den Disability Studies verfolgt werden. Für die Disability Studies ist die Unterscheidung von individueller Beeinträchtigung (impairment) und gesellschaftlich ausgrenzender Behinderung (disability) zentral. Behinderung wird nicht durch die Beeinträchtigung, sondern als durch die jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Umstände verursacht verstanden. Aus diesem Forschungsverständnis heraus legen die Disability Studies besonderen Wert darauf, dass behinderte Menschen selbst forschen oder als Lai/innen partizipativ an Forschung beteiligt werden. In dem Themenschwerpunkt sind sieben Beiträge versammelt, um theoretische und methodo(olog)ische Auseinandersetzungen sowie empirische Beiträge aus Psychologie und angrenzenden Disziplinen und Arbeitsfeldern vorzustellen und so jüngere Entwicklungen und die gegenwärtige Lage der Disablity Studies im deutschsprachigen Raum zu kartieren.

"This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores the do's and don'ts of disability etiquette and how to talk about disability. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full equity, inclusion, and access through life-changing disability and community services. Books include table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, and sidebars"-- Provided by publisher.

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts' approaches to the problem of disability harassment, particularly the application of an analogy to race and sex harassment and the development of legal remedies and policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While litigation under the ADA has addressed discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and education, Weber points out that the law has done little to combat disability harassment. He recommends that arguments based on unused provisions of the ADA should be developed and new legal remedies advanced to address the problem. Disability Harassment also draws on case law to explore special problems of harassment in the public schools, and closes with an appeal to judges and lawmakers for expanded legal protection against harassment

Introduction: Disorienting Disability / Michele Friedner; Karen Weingarten -- A Theory of Microactivist Affordances: Disability, Disorientations, and Improvisations / Arseli Dokumacı -- Care Communities: Ethics, Fictions, Temporalities / Talia Schaffer -- After Marginalization: Pixelization, Disability, and Social Difference in Digital Russia / Cassandra Hartblay -- Articulating Double Binds: Between a Rhetoricity of Rights and Vulnerabilities (Relation, Pedagogy, Care) / Lisa Diedrich -- Neoliberalism and Embodied Precarity: Some Crip Responses / Margrit Shildrick -- Faithful to the Contemplation of Bones: Disability and Irremediable Grief / Christina Crosby -- Contentious Crossings: Struggles and Alliances for Freedom of Movement across the Mediterranean Sea / Charles Heller; Lorenzo Pezzani -- "Our Dreams Are Not Different from Yours": Between Arab Uprisings and Migrations / Marta Bellingreri -- Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice / Nina Violetta Schwarz; Maurice Stierl -- Fighting Violence across Borders: From Victimhood to Feminist Struggles / Enrica Rigo; Francesca De Masi -- State Repression, Hostel Capitalism, and Black Resistance in Italy / Richard Braude -- "Free Our Brothers!": On the Politicization of Slavery in Libya within the French Context / João Gabriell .

Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.--Publisher description.

1. Disability studies in the communication ethics classroom : pedagogies of justice and voice / Joy M. Cypher -- 2. Creating a college course on communication and disability / Elaine Bass Jenks -- 3. Exploring communication between the differently abled and the temporarily able-bodied in a special topics course / J.W. Smith, Stephanie Dohling and Katherine Rush -- 4. Incorporating disability studies into the communication classroom through a high impact engagement nonverbal communication assignment / Paula K. Baldwin and Michael S. Jeffress -- 5. Sexuality and people with disabilities : a workshop within an interpersonal communication course / Kaori Miyawaki. [et al.] -- 6. Reframing the gender communication classroom : utilizing disability pedagogy / Brian Grewe, Jr -- 7. Bodies of dis-ease : towards the re-conception of "health" in health communication / Andrew Spieldenner and Elena Anadolis -- 8. Disability cultures and the intercultural communication course / Alberto Gonzalez and Andrew Donofrio -- 9. Disability and communication in the virtual classroom / Michael G. Strawser -- 10. Eyes wide open: student involvement in ASD research and TBI critical experiential learning in a media literacy class / Laura C. Farrell and Ginnifer L. Mastarone -- 11. Enhancing campus accessibility : a disability studies approach to teaching technical communication / Rebecca Miner -- 12. Exploring the intersection of ableism, image-building and hegemonic masculinity in the political communication classroom / Emily Stones -- 13. Unleashing disability perspectives in the public speaking course / Bettina Brockmann and Michael S. Jeffress.

Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline devalues the lives of persons with disabilities, arguing that reconciling the competing concerns of the disability community and the autonomy-based approach of mainstream bioethics is not only possible, but essential for a bioethics committed to facilitating good medical decision making and promoting respect for all persons, regardless of ability. Through in-depth case studies involving newborns, children and adults with disabilities, it proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases

Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline devalues the lives of persons with disabilities, arguing that reconciling the competing concerns of the disability community and the autonomy-based approach of mainstream bioethics is not only possible, but essential for a bioethics committed to facilitating good medical decision making and promoting respect for all persons, regardless of ability. Through in-depth case studies involving newborns, children and adults with disabilities, it proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases.