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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Sweet, Ryan

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030785895
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xv, 283p. : ill.
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810.93561 SWE p
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Articulating bodies : the narrative form of disability and illness in victori…
Hingston, Kylee Anne

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781789624953
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ix. ;232 p.
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823.8093561. KYL a
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Academic ableism: Disability and Higher Education
Dolmage, Jay Timothy

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often pos…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780472123414
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x, 244p.: ill.
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378.0087 DOL a
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Protecting the rights of people with autism in the fields of education and em…
Cera, RacheleDella Fina, Valentina

European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319137919
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IX, 197 p.
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346.40138 DEL p
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Disability, literature, genre: representation and affect in contemporary fiction
Cheyne, Ria

Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape i…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781789624892
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x, 202p.: ; 24 cm.
Series Title
Representations (Liverpool, England)
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809.9335610904 CHE d
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Disability, health and human development
Mitra, Sophie

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781137536389
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xxi, 177p. : ill.
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362.4091724 MIT d