Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
	References
1. Introduction: Dis/abilities at the Intersections
	From medical model to synthesis
		Rejection of a medical model by both approaches
		The embodiment critique of social construction
		Reconciliation of embodiment theory and social constructivism
	This volume's intersectional approach to CDS
	The figuring of dis/abilities in media studies, critical legal theory, and the cultural and social histories of embodiment
		Media studies
		Critical legal theory
		Cultural and social histories of embodiment
	Summaries of chapters
		Foundations: experience and theories
		Rehabilitation, disablement, and the state
		Representation, liminality, and resistance
		The political embodiment of personhood
	Notes
	References
Part I: Foundations: Experience and Theories
2. The Art of Regarding Still Life
	Still life as object
	Still life as in coming to a stand still
	Still life as possibility
	Summary
	References
3. Embodiment's Contributions to Appreciating Life with Dis/ability and to Advancing Justice
	Introduction: wondering about the body
	Medicine's continued attachment to biological understandings
		Racial profiling in medicine
		Medical commitment to "fixing" dis/ability
	Embodiment's contribution
		Embodiment, subjectivity, and equal humanity
		Embodiment, emergent disability, and justice
			Race as a determinant of dis/ability?
			Emergent disability: implications for justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part II: Rehabilitation, Disablement, and the State
4. Subjects of Industry: Craft Therapy, Its Photography, and Healing American Soldiers of World War I
	Introduction
	Craft as therapy
	Revising dis/ability? Craft and the "new industrialism"
	Crafting ability through occupation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. Medical Discourses on Dis/ability in State Socialist Romania: A Critical Genealogy
	Introduction
	Social constructivism, embodiment theory, and the dis/abled body
	Soviet thought styles
	The defective body
	Romanian trajectories
	Deflating the Soviet appeal
	Dis/ability through the lens of labor productivity
	Dis/ability and work capacity in the Romanian state
	Work as therapy
	Conclusion
	References
6. Embodied Inequalities: Intersections of Dis/abilities and Gender in West Germany (1950-1990)
	Intersectionality, intracategorial and intercategorial complexity
	Honorary Germans? War-dis/abled men in postwar Germany
	The thalidomide transformation
	Dis/abled housewives: impairment, gender, and the body
	Those who had no lobby: persons with mental impairment
	Conclusion
	References
7. Policing Dis/ability
	Introduction
	Embodiment and dis/ability
	The nature of the police
		A nightstick is a weapon with a dis/ability issue at both ends
		What the police do
	Policing dignity
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part III: Representation, Liminality, and Resistance
8. Reassessing Japanese Radical Feminism from the Vantage Point of Dis/ability
	Introduction
	The Eugenic Protection Law, its purpose and bio-politics
	Yonezu Tomoko and the Japanese student movement—catalyst for the ribu movement
	1972—revision attempts of the EPL and ribu's intervention into bio-politics
	Ribu's opposition to the proposed revisions
	Ribu and the dis/ability movement
	Incorporating dis/ability into the reproduction debate
	1981—calls to revise the EPL resurface again
	Opposing revision attempts after ribu
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9. Sayōnara CP: The First Filmic Representation of the Japanese Dis/ability Rights Movement
	Aoi shiba no kai: the first self-advocacy group of dis/abled people in Japan
	Exposing bodies, exposing problems?
		Challenging conceptions of the "normal body"
		Challenging the medicalization of dis/ability
	Hara Kazuo's gaze: from ableism to abuse?
		Creating a freak show?
		Looking at the individual rather than the group
		Looking at dis/abled men
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
10. Voltron: Legendary Defender and Compulsory Able-Bodiedness
	Introduction
	Background
	Voltron: Legendary Defender
	Methodology
		Tagging
		Close reading: disability tropes and plot-telling
			Shiro, "noble crip"
	Shiro/Keith: lovers and brothers in arms
	Shiro/Adam: bury your gays
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
11. Corrective Lens: Dis/abilities and the Materiality of Media
	Introduction
	How media studies scholars conceptualize dis/abilities and technologies
	Materiality in assistive technology
	The slash: myopia, between ability and dis/ability
	Myopia and eyeglasses: first, there is a problem, then there is a solution?
	Superhuman abilities for a body with limits
		Wearable technology: questioning bodily normalcy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part IV: The Political Embodiment of Personhood
12. Dis/ability and Race in American History: Rhetoric and Reality in the Civil War and Post-Emancipation South
	No whit less brave: race, dis/ability, and military service
	Reconstruction and relief: dis/ability and in/dependence in freedom
	The politics of pity and fear: dis/ability and the roots of lost cause ideology
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
13. Bending the Laws of Nature: DNA Literacy and the Coding of the Perfect Human Being
	Introduction
	The idea of the perfect human being and its link to eugenics: a historical overview
	DNA literacy or the capacity to read and edit human genomes
	Designer babies
	Un/natural Selection (2019)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
14. Deconstructing Rules for Proof of Cognitive Impairments
	Theoretical underpinnings of rules governing proof of mental capacity
	Current rules for proving mental incapacity cause hardship for neurodivergent litigants and witnesses, particularly in criminal cases
		Standards of proof for mental incapacity
		Procedural rules for proof of mental incapacity
	Reforms to provide consistent protections for neurodivergent people
	Notes
	References
15. So That Playing to Win Is Not Playing to Die: Constructing Legal Recourse for Athletes with Sickle Cell Trait Laboring in the Actor-Networks of the Brown Commons
	What is SCT?
	Dis/ability is socially constructed
	Dis/ability as ambiguous
	The Bragdon Framework
	The athletes
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgement
	Notes
	References
Index