Dispatches from Disabled Country
Edited by Christine Kelly & Michael Orsini
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Social Sciences, Disability Studies, Regional & Cultural Studies
Series: Disability Culture and Politics
Publisher: UBC Press Show Edition Details
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774868693, 288 pages, May 2023
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774868709, 288 pages, May 2023
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Table of contents
Foreword / Kathryn Church and Melanie Panitch
Preface: About Disabled Country / Catherine Frazee
Introduction / Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini
Refusing Extinction
Introduction / Harvey Chochinov
Death in Disabled Country: Declaring Ourselves in the MAiD Debate
Under the Microscope: Dissecting Law and Medicine in the Disability Rights Laboratory
Disability and Law: Rethinking Paradigms
Vigils for Tracy Latimer
Vulnerability and Inducement: Locating the Cart and the Horse
Disability Studies: The Genetic Counsellor’s Unexpected Guest
Lamb Affidavit
Disrupting Culture
Introduction / Eliza Chandler
Art with Attitude
Because We Are: Anthem for Disabled Country
Kicking the Applecart, Upsetting Culture
Absent Presence: Disability in (and out of) the Museum
Stelco’s Cabin, a Response
Contributing to Culture
Out from Under: Two Beginnings
Unmaking Vulnerability
Introduction / Laverne Jacobs
Violence, Disability, and Remembering
Courageous States
Disability in a Dangerous Time
Venom without Malice: On First Meeting a Rattlesnake
Separate but Equal, Isn’t
Activism Works
Why Monsters Matter: Portrait of the Activist as a Young Monster
Conclusion: An Interview with Catherine Frazee / Michael Orsini and Christine Kelly
Notes; References; Index
Description
Catherine Frazee wants her readers to know that there is far more to disability than most people think or assume. There is much not to like about disability, such as the ways it diminishes status and opportunity, and the ways it requires medical intrusions which, even if lifesaving, are nobody’s idea of a good time. As becomes apparent in this powerful collection of writing, there is much more to the story of disabled life. There is adaptation and activism. There is art, philosophy, and history. There is solidarity, identity, collective struggle, and shared culture. Frazee offers a glimpse into a rich and delicate ecology of disability that warrants not fear and pity, but recognition and respect.