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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (please reply to [log in to unmask] and not to the list) Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ethnography and Disability Studies The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography announces a Call for Papers for a special issue on Ethnography and Disability Studies. A hallmark of disability rights approaches has been to show how the category of "disabled" has been produced through legal, medical, political, cultural, and literary narratives. According to disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "the physically disabled body becomes a repository for social anxieties about such troubling concerns as vulnerability, control, and identity.Disability, then, is the attribution of corporeal deviance-not so much a property of bodies as a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do" (Thomson 1997:6). Bodies considered to be "extraordinary", or different, gain meaning within hierarchical social relationships, with some bodies considered superior and some considered inferior. Papers in this special issue should be ethnographically grounded and should explore some aspect of disability studies; that is, should attend to disability as it is socially produced. Topics may include, among others, the medicalization of bodily difference; issues related to prenatal diagnosis and treatment; disability rights activism; disability and health care; race, class, gender, and sexuality as they relate to disability; lived experiences of disability; cultural representations of disability; and so on. If you are unsure whether your topic or research is suitable, or are interested in reviewing for this issue, contact the Special Issue Editor, Monica Casper, via e-mail at [log in to unmask] or phone at 360-331-7198. All papers will be peer reviewed, and all submissions should have implications that will interest the broad social science readership of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. The deadline for paper submissions is March 1, 2004. Papers are scheduled to appear in the April 2005 issue. Please send four paper copies of your submission to: Monica J. Casper, Special Issue Editor Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 1889 Lancaster Road Freeland, WA 98249 USA (360) 331-7198 Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Department of Women's Studies Candler Library, Suite 128 Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-7282 (my office) 404-727-4659 (fax) 404-727-0096 (main office) 703-599-2407 (mobile) ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.