Writing disability : a critical history /

"What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history--from ancient Greece to the present day--to reveal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Sara J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, 2013.
Colección:Disability in society.
Temas:
People with disabilities > History.
Disability studies.
Sociology of disability.
Personnes handicapées > Histoire.
Études sur le handicap.
Handicap > Aspect sociologique.
Disability studies
People with disabilities
Sociology of disability
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Disability and life writing
  • Ancient sources: outcasts, oracles, and old age
  • Medieval voices: sins, salvation, and the female body
  • Early modern era: reenacting reform
  • The long eighteenth century: reason and logic in an enlightened age
  • The nineteenth century: insanity and asylums
  • The early twentieth century: Helen Keller and the public reception of disability
  • The twentieth century: military, biomedical and personal perspectives
  • Into the twenty-first century: presence in the digital age
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book.

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