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Disability and passing : blurring the lines of identity /

Passing-an act usually associated with disguising race-also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person falsely claims a disability to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much discusse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brune, Jeffrey A., 1972- (Editor ), Wilson, Daniel J., 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 9 Growing Up to Become Hearing:Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationContributors; Index.
  • Introduction / Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
  • Passing in the Shadow of FDR : Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability / Daniel J. Wilson
  • The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public Discourse / Jeffrey A. Brune
  • The Menstrual Masquerade / David Linton
  • "I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb" : Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South / Dea H. Boster
  • Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus / Peta Cox
  • Athlete First : A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport / Michael A. Rembis
  • The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual Disability / Allison C. Carey
  • Growing Up to Become Hearing : Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf Education / Kristen C. Harmon.