| Description |
vii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Based on scholarship presented at a three-day conference ... organized by the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University, March 1-3, 2001"--Prelim. p. vii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Positions -- Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / Adrienne Asch -- Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / Sumi Colligan -- Interpreting Women / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Desire and Identity -- Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / Alison Kafer -- Fighting Polio Like a Man: Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Aging / Daniel J. Wilson -- "Disability" and "Divorce": A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates His Options in 1756 / Catherine J. Kudlick -- Bodies in Trouble : Identity, Embodiment and Disability / Kristin Lindgren -- Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / Russell P. Shuttleworth -- Arts and Embodiment -- Helen Keller's Love Life / Georgina Kleege |
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Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / Sarah E. Chinn -- Disability, Gender and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo / Robin Adl̈e Greeley -- "But, Mother-I'm-crippled!" Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance / Ann M. Fox -- Citizens and Consumers -- Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / Lisa Schur -- Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / Carol Kaufman-Scarborough -- Women and Emerging Disabilities / Melissa J. McNeil and Thilo Kroll -- The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / Corbett Joan O'Toole. |
| Subject |
Women with disabilities -- Congresses.
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Women with disabilities. |
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Sociology of disability -- Congresses.
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Sociology of disability. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-
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Hutchison, Beth.
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| ISBN |
0813533732 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813533724 alkaline paper |
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