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 t...

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