Civil disabilities : citizenship, membership, and belonging

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Civil Disabilities presents original essays by leading figures in disabilities studies who reconsider the meaning of citizenship. Working from a variety of disciplines and approaches, the volume explores the possibilities for imagining a more just and inclusive world for disabled persons.

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Disability, citizenship, and belonging: A critical introduction / Nancy J. Hirschmann and Beth Linker -- Homer's odyssey: multiple disability and The best years of our lives / Susan M. Schweik -- Defect: a selective re-interpretation of American immigration history / Douglas C. Baynton -- The disremembered past / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner -- Integrating disability, transforming disease history: tuberculosis and its past / Beth Linker and Emily K. Abel -- Screening disabilities: visual fields, public culture, and the atypical mind in the twenty-first century / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- Social confluence and citizenship: a view from the intersection of music and disability / Alex Lubet -- Our ancestors the sighted: making blind people French and French people blind, 1750-1991 / Catherine Kudlick -- Citizenship and the family: parents of children with disabilities, the pursuit of rights, and paternalism / Allsion C. Carey -- Cognitive disability, capability equality, and citizenship / Lorella Terzi -- Invisible disability: seeing, being, power / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Disability trouble / Tobin Siebers.

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