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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Discourses of Disability"”.
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
This project brings together two areas of discussion that are often avoided or completely denied: disability and sexuality. This thesis will employ a disability studies framework to understand the barriers that prevent disabled people from being sexually active citizens. I begin my looking to the …
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Engaging the Brave and the Bold: Exploring the Discourses of Disability Through Life Stories
<p>Understanding the meaning making of having an acquired physical disability still remains a mystery today. With more than 20 percent of our total population experiencing some form of disability, this study explores discourses of disability that emerge from participants' life stories. This study …
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"As Long as It's Healthy...": Prenatal Health, Disability and Biopower
… past thirty years have seen widespread adoption of prenatal testing technologies used to detect potential disabilities in fetuses (Lupton, 2011; Rapp, 2011; Tremain, 2006; Weir, 1996). The increased routinization of prenatal testing and the discourse of responsible motherhood coupled with …
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Re/presenting the self: autobiographical performance by people with disability
Representations of people with disability, whether in print media and literature, film, television, or theatre, have traditionally been produced by nondisabled people with varying degrees of exposure to, and knowledge of, the lived experience of disability. The resultant tradition of …