I have used Nancy Mairs' essay, "On Being a Cripple" in my Intro. to
Political Science courses with much success; talking about language and
labels. It's widely anthologized.
John B Kelly wrote:
> A therapist/artist friend, who sometimes guest-lectures to
> students in physical therapy and other fields, asked my help in finding
> some key pieces promoting a disability rights perspective, which could be
> assigned as part of a 1-2 week mini-course. He was interested in covering
> a number of perspectives (medicine, politics, popular culture, etc). He's
> looking for about 4 or so articles. Off the top of my head, I came up
> with the following 3. Any suggestions? Thank you!
> John Kelly
>
> Hershey, Laura
> 1994 "Choosing Disability"
> MS. July/August: 26-32.
> Really upsets conventional notions of the tragedy of a
> prenatal Dx
>
> Longmore, Paul K.
> 1985 "Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People."
> Social Policy (Summer), 31-38.
> The classic pop culture piece
> Zola, Irving
> 1993 "Disability Statistics: What We Count and What it Tells
> Us." Journal of Disability Policy Studies 4(2):9-39.
> Where disability is so problematized as to become both
> a ubiquitous and an emptied-out category
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Katharina C. Heyer
Dept. of Political Science
University of Hawai'i
2424 Maile Way # 617-A
Honolulu, HI 96822
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