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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Steep Steps -- 3. Imaginary College Students -- 4. Universal Design -- 5. Disability on Campus, on Film: Framing the Failures of Higher Education -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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

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.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Immigration has never been about immigration -- ISLAND Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability -- PIER Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration -- EXPLOSION Technologies of immigration restriction -- ARCHIVE Affective spaces of eugenics -- CONCLUSION Responsibility for tomorrow -- Bibliography -- Index

"While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory reader for disability studies aimed at first- and second-year students in two- and four-year colleges"--