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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.... the stories here reveal the range of responses, and the variety of consequences, to being labeled as "disabled" by the broader public."
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices. When Alison Piepmeier--scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome--died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She...
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