Histories of disability in Latin America.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Project Muse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Latin America.

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword. The Many Threads of Disability Woven Through Latin American History

Introduction. Disability in Latin America's Past: An Opening

1 Looking at Looking: Staring at and Caring for Peru's Youngest Mother in the World (1939)

2 Disability and the Heroic Creation of José Carlos Mariátegui

3 Border Conceptions: Anencephalic Births and Geographies of Bodily Difference in the Rio Grande Valley

4 Debilitating Care: Mothers and Children in the Aftermath of Zika in Brazil

5 Slavery, Litigation, and the Construction of Disability in Late Colonial Lima, Peru

6 Madness in Ecuador, 1900-1943: Indigenous People and Intellectual Impairment

7 Disability, Colonialism, and Gendered Illness in the Aftermath of the 1773 Guatemala Earthquake

8 Disability Masquerade and Wounded Combatants in Civil War El Salvador

Afterword. With Us, Not About Us

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

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K

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Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9781421454061

1421454068

Publisher Number:

40033149498

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.