May I add to Sharon's posting by enlarging on the theme of this Winter 2004
issue, which is Disability Culture in Childrens Literature.
(www.dsq-sds.org under "current issue" link.)
Please circulate this information among your colleagues and contacts in
communities involved with disability, children's literature, education,
social sciences, writing and publishing, and any others who may be
interested. The Table of Contents follows
Editors Preface: Beth Haller and Corinne Kirchner
News and Notes.
Symposium: Disability Culture in Children's Literature
Guest Editors' Introduction : Ann Dowker, Kathy Saunders and Jane Stemp.
Full Papers:
Isabel Brittain: An Examination into the Portrayal of Deaf Characters and
Deaf Issues in Picture Books for Children
Kapria Daniels: What Teachers Never Taught And Writers Feared To Write:
Disability in African American Children's Literature
Ann Dowker: The Treatment of Disability in 19th and Early 20th Century
Children's Literature
Susanne Gervay: Butterflies: Youth Literature as a Powerful Tool in
Understanding Disability
Lois Keith: What Writers Did Next: Disability, Illness and Cure in books in
the Second Half of the 20th Century
Jenny Kendrick: Signifying Something: Images of Learning Disability in
Fiction for Children
Kerry Kidd: The Mother and the Angel: Disability Studies, Mothering and the
'Unreal' in Children's Fiction
Chris Saad: The Portrayal of Male and Female Characters With Chronic
Illnesses in Children's Realistic Fiction, 1970-1994
Kathy Saunders: What disability studies can do for children's literature
Jane Stemp: Devices and desires: science fiction, fantasy and disability in
literature for young people
Santiago Solis: The Disabilitymaking Factory: Manufacturing "Differences"
through Children's Books
Forum papers
Helen Atunrase: Face to Face
Helen Aveling: 2D or 3D characters
Joan Blaska: Children's Literature That Includes Characters With
Disabilities or Illnesses
Cristina Caņamares Torrijos: Disabled Characters In Spanish Children's
Literature
Lois Keith: A Non-Neutral Review
Penny Richards: "Even good mothers come to grief over such": Jane Yolen's
Good Grisell
John Sanders: A Little Help From My Friends
Z. Sonia Worotynec: Contrived or inspired: Ability/disability in the
children's picture book
General Papers
Social Integration and Employees with a Disability: Their View
Helen Gay, M.A.
Book & Film Reviews
Ann Millett, Michael M. Chemers, Petra Kuppers
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