Cripping girlhood / Anastasia Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Anastasia, author.

Series:

Corporealities

Corporealities: discourses of disability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women with disabilities--United States--History--21st century.

Young women with disabilities.

Youth with disabilities--United States--History--21st century.

Youth with disabilities.

Children with disabilities--United States--History--21st century.

Children with disabilities.

Girls--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Girls.

People with disabilities in mass media--History--21st century.

People with disabilities in mass media.

Girls in mass media--History--21st century.

Girls in mass media.

Physical Description:

xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2024]

Summary:

Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media culture. It uncovers how the exceptional figure of the disabled girl most often appears as a resource to work through post-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anxieties about the family, healthcare, labor, citizenship, and the precarity of the bodymind. In paying critical attention to disabled girlhood, the book uses feminist disability studies to rupture the unwitting assumption in girls' studies that girlhood is necessarily non-disabled. By closely examining the ways that disabled girls represent themselves, Anastasia Todd goes beyond a critique of the figure of the privileged disabled girl subject in the national imagination to explore how disabled girls circulate their own capacious re-envisioning of what it means to be a disabled girl. In analyzing a range of cultural sites, including YouTube, TikTok, documentaries, and GoFundMe campaigns, Todd shows how disabled girls actively upend what we think we know about them and their experience, recasting the meanings ascribed to their bodyminds in their own terms. By analyzing disabled girls' self-representational practices and cultural productions, Todd shows how disabled girls deftly theorize their experiences of ableism, sexism, racism, and ageism, and cultivate communities online, creating archives of disability knowledge and politicizing other disabled people in the process.

Contents:

Introduction: Cripping Post-ADA Disabled Girlhood

1. The Futurity of Disabled Girlhood

2. From Disabled Girlhood 2.0 to the "Crip-fluencer"

3. Domesticating Disability: Crip Girls and Their Dogs

4. The Crip Afterlife of Jerika Bolen

5. Coda: Cripping Disability Visibility in Fascist Times.

Notes:

"Crip, slang for cripple, is a term in the process of being reclaimed by disabled people."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Todd, Anastasia. Crippling girlhood

ISBN:

9780472076741

0472076744

9780472056743

0472056743

OCLC:

1389609408