Autism and Gender : From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks /

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"The CDC estimates that 1 in 110 children in the US have an autism spectrum disorder, and over the last decade the cause of autism has become a highly contested topic in the media as well within medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Speculation about why and how a growing number of peop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jack, Jordynn, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex factors in disease.
Autism in children > Etiology.
Children.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
children (people by age group)
Enfants.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
Autisme infantile > Étiologie.
Autisme > Facteurs sexuels.
Sex Factors
Child
Autistic Disorder > etiology
Autism > Sex factors.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Autism's Gendered Characters
  • Chapter 1. Interpreting Gender: Refrigerator Mothers
  • Chapter 2. Performing Gender: Mother Warriors
  • Chapter 3. Presenting Gender: Computer Geeks
  • Chapter 4. Rehearsing Gender: Autism Dads
  • Chapter 5. Inventing Gender: Neurodiverse Characters
  • Conclusions: Gender, Character, and Rhetoric
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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