WR 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harlan Lane, From The Inside Out, Ableism

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: English
• Course: WR 123
• Professor: Courtney Floyd

Document Summary

Very valued, scholars are encouraged to talk about themselves. People view those with disabilities in negative way. People with disabilities are a community, a shared social identity and political status. Points out that have a disability, they are not a minority. We all go through disability at one point, yet we don"t talk about it. Temporarily able bodied (tab): people without disability. Complex factors in how you are considered disabled. Interdisciplinary themes as always connected to issues of race, class, gender and other identifiers. The stare : telling glance directed toward people with physical disabilities. Tab (temporarily able-bodied): prefered term to normal. Claiming disability: knowledge and identity by simi linton. Staring back: disability experience from the inside out by. Life as we know it: father, family, exceptional child by. Extraordinary bodies: figuring disability in american culture and. Vital signs: crip culture talks back by david mitchell and. Enforcing normalcy: disability, deformity and the body by davis.