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Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family. Contributors to Disabling Domesticity focus on the varied domestic sites where intimate – and interdependent – human relations are formed and maintained.  Analyzing domesticity through the lens of disability forces readers to think in new ways about family and household forms, care work, an ethic of care, reproductive labor, gendered and generational conflicts and cooperation, ageing, dependence, and local and global economies and political systems, in part by bringing the notion of interdependence, which undergirds all of the chapters in this book, into the foreground.

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Author:   Michael Rembis
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.862kg
ISBN:  

9781137487681

ISBN 10:   1137487682
Pages:   355
Publication Date:   20 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction .- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity .- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing .- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America .- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cultural Politics of Accessible Housing in the United States .- A Feminist Technoscientific Approach to Disability and Caregiving in the Family .- Inevitable Intersections: Care, Work, and Citizenship .- Reclaiming the Sexual Rights of LGBTQ People with Attendant Care Dependent Mobility Impairments .- “Everybody Has Different Levels of Why They Are Here”: Deconstructing Domestication in the Nursing Home Setting .- Contesting the Neoliberal Affects of Disabled Parenting: Towards a Relational Emergence of Disability .- The Mad Woman in the Garden: DecolonizingDomesticity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night .- Gatekeepers of Normalcy:  The Disablement of Families in the Master Narratives of Psychology .- Postfeminist Motherhood?: Reading a Differential Deployment of Identity in American Women’s HIV Narratives .- Melting Down the Family Unit: A Neuroqueer Critique of Table-Readiness. 

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Michael Rembis is Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA. He has authored or edited many books, articles, and book chapters, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories co-edited with Susan Burch (2014); and The Oxford Handbook of Disability History co-edited with Kim Nielsen and Catherine Kudlick (forthcoming).

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