RDS Volume 7, No. 3 & 4

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    Disability Studies Dissertation Abstracts
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Erlen, Jonathon
    The information for this section of RDS is provided by Jonathon Erlen of the University of Pittsburgh. A full list of disability-related dissertation abstracts may be found at http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/dissertations/
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    Book Review: The Power to Spring Up: Postsecondary Education Opportunities for Students with Significant Disabilities
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Rusch, Frank
    Author: Diana M. Katovitch Reviewer: Frank R. Rusch Publication Data: ­­­­­­­Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House 2009 Softcover: ISBN: 978-1-890627-95-9 Cost: $24.95, 265 pages
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    Book Review: Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essay on Mass Media
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Brown, Steven E.
    Author: Beth A. Haller Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Louisville, KY, Advocado Press, PO Box 406781, www.advocadopress.org, 2010 Paper: ISBN: 978-0-9721189-3-4 Cost: $24.95, 208 pages
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    Book Review: Moon on the Meadow: Collected Poems
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Gramblin, Aimée
    Author: Pia Taavila. Reviewer: Aimée Gramblin Publisher: Gallaudet University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-56368-364-0, Paper, 140 pages Cost: $24.95
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    Ethnographing the Garden
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Cousik, Rama
    This is a creative piece for Volume 7, Issue 3,4.
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    Disability and Rehabilitation in Late Colonial Ghana
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Grischow, Jeff D.
    This paper analyzes disability and economic rehabilitation in late colonial Ghana (the Gold Coast), focusing particularly on a program for African soldiers between 1943 and 1947. The project, which attempted to reintegrate the rehabilitees into the existing workforce, failed within a few years of its inception. I argue that its failure occurred for three reasons: urban economic hardship, the rehabilitees’ peasant backgrounds and the colonial doctrine of community development. Reinforcing this analysis is the fact that after independence, the Ghanaian government reversed the colonial conditions and achieved much better success.
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    Electioneering and Activism at the Turn of the Century and the Politics of Disablement: The Legacy of E.T. Kingsley (1856-1929)
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Malhotra, Ravi
    The lost career of Eugene T. Kingsley (1856-1929), an American-Canadian socialist who ran for the House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons and the British Columbia Legislature, has much to teach disability studies scholars. A double amputee who walked with a cane and artificial limbs, Kingsley was radicalized after an industrial accident in California and went on to become a central leader of the Socialist Party of Canada. In this article, I document his career and reflect on his legacy.
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    “Useless”: Disability, Slave Labor, and Contradiction on Antebellum Southern Plantations
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Boster, Dea Hadley
    African American slaves with disabilities (broadly defined as physical, mental or aesthetic conditions seen as unfavorable or impairing) performed a variety of duties on antebellum southern plantations. However, tensions between goals of production, profit, control, and planters’ expectations often created contradictory assessments of disability in slaves. Slaves with disabilities were also at risk of abuse—including corporeal punishment, neglect, and murder—from masters.
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    Deserving of Charity or Deserving of Better? The Continuing Legacy of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act for Britain’s Deaf Population
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Atherton, Martin
    This study will outline how deaf people in Britain were treated under the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act and will argue that attitudes towards their abilities established by and in response to the New Poor Law continue to influence social policy provision and the employability of deaf people to this day.
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    A Historical Overview of Disability and Employment in the United States, 1600 to 1950
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2011) Patterson, Stephanie
    Through a preliminary review of existing literature and archival source materials, this brief overview begins the task of compiling existing data about the history of disability and employment in the United States. A chronological framework is used that includes employment–related phenomena. The major topics covered are pre-industrial rural life, post-industrial work opportunities and the government’s response to the employment needs of disabled veterans. In addition, due to relevance to the topic, there is a brief mention of freak shows and the dawning disability rights movement after WWI.