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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.