RDS Volume 6, No. 3

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    Disability Studies Dissertation Abstracts
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) 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: Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries, and Sexuality: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Guinan, Martha
    Author: Terri Couwenhoven Reviewer: Martha M. Guinan, MPH Publisher: Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-890627-33-1 Paperback: 8 ½ x 11, 400 pages Cost: $24.95 USD. Order through Woodbine House www.woodbinehouse.com
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    Book Review: Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Heyer, Katharina
    Author: Carol Poore Reviewer: Katharina Heyer, Ph.D. Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2007 Cloth: ISBN: 978-0-472-11595-2 Cost: $70.00 Paper: ISBN: 978-0-472-03381-2 Cost: 24.95, 432 pages
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    Book Review: Living with Low Vision and Blindness: Guidelines That Help Professionals and Individuals Understand Vision Impairment
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Omansky, Beth
    Authors: John M. Crandall, Jr., Ph.D. and Lee W. Robinson Reviewer: Beth Omansky Publisher: Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 2007 Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0-398-07741-9 Cost: $49.95 Softcover: ISBN 978-0-398-07742-6 (paper) Cost: $34.95, 220 pages
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    Book Review: Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Folk, Charles
    Editor: Marlene Tromp Reviewer: Charles Folk Publisher: Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8142-1086-4 Price: $49.95, Cloth, 328 pages
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    Disability by Design
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) DePoy, Elizabeth ; Gilson, Stephen
    Given the primacy of global economics and marketing mind-sets, this article interrogates disability as a phenomenon of design and branding. We begin by briefly reviewing relevant design and branding concepts, proceed to apply them to the creation of a disability identity and set of responses, and then demonstrate the power of design and branding as subversive or facilitative of advancing transformative global inclusion and human rights.
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    Performing the Pain: Opening the (Crip) Body for (Queer) Pleasures
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Kolářová, Kateřina
    With a view to interdisciplinary dialogue(s) between queer theory and disability studies, this article discusses the work of Bob Flanagan and his partner Sheree Rose. Specifically, it focuses on their queer S/M practices as a strategy of negotiating disability/pain, but also as a practice redefining notions of (disabled) embodiment. It also discusses Flanagan and Rose’s queer/crip politics as an opening for “desiring disability.”
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    Spectacle, Performance, and the Re-Presentation of Disability and Impairment
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Wilde, Alison
    This article proposes the value of investigating audience interpretations as viewing performances to interrogate disabling discourses on popular television. In synthesising media and disability studies approaches, performances of identities are investigated, contextualizing the media as a crucial factor in forms of cultural identification, contributing to patterns of exclusion and inclusion.
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    Dialogism, Monologism, and Boundaries: Some Possibilities for Disability Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Smith, Brett
    This article explores the possibilities of dialogism and monologism for disability studies by applying these concepts to a story in which two people orient to boundaries and express some concern over being too close or too distant from each other within a research encounter. It suggests that questions concerning “how close is too close” to research participants, and “how far is too far,” are complex and shift in time as people move between merging and unmerging, self-sufficiency and non-self-sufficiency, and finalizing and unfinalizing practices.
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    Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Disability and Postcolonial Studies
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010) Barker, Clare
    Disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies but remains surprisingly absent as a subject of analysis in the field of Postcolonial Studies. Through a critical reading of disability in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children (1981), this article develops an interdisciplinary critical methodology that pays attention to disability both as an aesthetic textual device and as lived experience.