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Ableist rhetoric : how we know, value, and see disability / James L. Cherney.
LIBRA HV1568 .C47 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherney, James L., 1968- author.
- Series:
- RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination against people with disabilities.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The rhetorical dimensions of ableism
- Fearing disability and the possession narrative
- Ableism and the cochlear implant controversy
- Sport as ableist institution
- A rhetorical model of disability.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271084688
- 0271084685
- OCLC:
- 1096240058
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