Civil Disabilities : : Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging / / ed. by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Beth Linker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Abel, Emily K.,; Baynton, Douglas C.,; Burch, Susan,; Carey, Allison C.,; Ginsburg, Faye,; Hirschmann, Nancy J.,; Joyner, Hannah,; Kudlick, Catherine,; Linker, Beth,; Lubet, Alex,; Rapp, Rayna,; Schweik, Susan M.,; Siebers, Tobin,; Terzi, Lorella,
• HerausgeberIn: Hirschmann, Nancy J.,; Linker, Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability; this number grows exponentially when family members, friends, and care providers are included. Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability. Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the United States and throughout the world still face exclusion from full citizenship and membership in their respective societies. They are regularly denied employment, housing, health care, access to buildings, and the right to move freely in public spaces. At base, such discrimination reflects a tacit yet pervasive assumption that disabled persons do not belong in society.Civil Disabilities challenges such norms and practices, urging a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society. Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies, which still largely assume an ableist world. Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists, sociologists with literary critics, and musicologists with political scientists, this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent, inclusive, and just, in both theory and practice. By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse, Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belonging.Contributors: Emily Abel, Douglas C. Baynton, Susan Burch, Allison C. Carey, Faye Ginsburg, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Hannah Joyner, Catherine Kudlick, Beth Linker, Alex Lubet, Rayna Rapp, Susan Schweik, Tobin Siebers, Lorella Terzi.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Disability, Citizenship, And Belonging: A Critical Introduction -- 1. Homer's Odyssey: Multiple Disability and the Best Years of Our Lives -- 2. Defect: A Selective Reinterpretation of American Immigration History -- 3. The Disremembered Past -- 4. Integrating Disability, Transforming Disease History: Tuberculosis and Its Past -- 5. Screening Disabilities: Visual Fields, Public Culture, and the Atypical Mind in the Twenty- First Century -- 6. Social Confluence and Citizenship: A View from the Intersection of Music and Disability -- 7. Our Ancestors the Sighted: Making Blind People French and French People Blind, 1750- 1991 -- 8. Citizenship and the Family: Parents of Children with Disabilities, the Pursuit of Rights, and Paternalism -- 9. Cognitive Disability, Capability Equality, and Citizenship -- 10. Invisible Disability: Seeing, Being, Power -- 11. Disability Trouble -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments