Research Catalog

Title

Semiotics and dis/ability : interrogating categories of difference / edited by Linda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rogers, Linda J., 1942-
• Swadener, Beth Blue.

Description

viii, 287 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural studies

Uniform Title

Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.)

Alternative Title

Semiotics and disability

Subjects

• Disability studies
• Sociology of disability
• Semiotics
• People with disabilities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Engaging anthropology in disability studies / Devva Kasnitz and Russell P. Shuttleworth -- Searching for the cure: virtual disability and collective action in an electronic support group / Gerald Gold -- View from the ivory tower: academics constructing disability / Robin M. Smith -- Symbolic contexts, embodied sensitivities, and the lived experience of sexually relevant interpersonal encounters for a man with severe cerebral palsy / Russell R. Shuttleworth -- Shareholder commentary / John C. Rossiter -- Semiotics of accessibility and the culture of disability / N. Kagendo Mutua -- A mother's construction of the semiotic self / Nancy Stockall -- Advocating for full inclusion: mother's narratives / Asha Saini -- Shareholder commentary / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Personal assistance services and youth in transition / Marissa Nicole Shaw -- Both emic and etic: a view of the world through the lens of the ugly duckling / Robertta Thoryk, Patricia Roberts, and Angela M. Battistone -- The Miller method: an early intervention program to help young children with autism make meaning in their lives / Christine E. Cook -- The meaning of disability for grandparents of young children with special needs / Elizabeth Lane Brennan and Philip L. Safford -- Shareholder commentary / Tim P. Karash -- Epilogue: after and into the narrative frame / Linda J. Rogers, Beth Blue Swadener, and Tembinkosi Nyangiwe -- End notes: semiotically digesting dis/ability / Floyd Merrell and Myrdene Anderson.

Call Number

JFE 01-12244

ISBN

• 079144905X
• 0791449068 (pbk.)

LCCN

00040021

OCLC

44075871

Title

Semiotics and dis/ability : interrogating categories of difference / edited by Linda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener.

Imprint

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.

Series

Cultural studies

Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rogers, Linda J., 1942-

Swadener, Beth Blue.

Research Call Number

JFE 01-12244