Hi everyone!
Because so many people wrote to me offlist wanting to know what responses I
received to my request for book-length ethnographies using a disability
studies perspective, I decided to post extracts from the replies here. Thank
you all for your help.
Best,
Beth Omansky Gordon
A World Without Words: The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and
Blind, by David Goode, published by Temple U. Press, 1994.
The following is available thru interlibrary loan (1997, University of
Georgia):
BETH A. FERRI
The Construction of Identity Among Women with Learning Disabilities:
The Many Faces of the Self
(Under the direction of NOËL GREGG and JUDITH PREISSLE)
I'm not sure it uses a "disability studies" perspective, but you should look
at Gaylene Becker's GROWING OLD IN SILENCE--a nice anthropological account
of older people who are deaf.
Rod Michalko's The Two in One:
Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness (1999)
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1431_reg.htm
(The book cover and press write up is a bit mis-leading,
oriented as it is to sales to a wide market. (It is highly
readable) Michalko uses, what some refer to as,
auto-ethnography - an ethnography of his own life and other
blind people and guide dog users. The book also relies on
ethnomethodology and phenomenology to uncover the social
rendering of blindness as inability and lack and tries to
suggest alternative conceptions to blindness.)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|