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Disability History: Why We Need Another "Other"

The American historical review, 2003-06, Vol.108 (3), p.763-793 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright American Historical Association Jun 2003 ;ISSN: 0002-8762 ;EISSN: 1937-5239 ;DOI: 10.1086/529597 ;PMID: 12964564 ;CODEN: AMHRA2

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  • Title:
    Disability History: Why We Need Another "Other"
  • Author: Kudlick, Catherine J.
  • Subjects: American literature ; Blindness ; Cultural history ; Deaf history ; Deafness ; Disabilities ; Disability ; Disability studies ; Disabled persons ; Disabled Persons - history ; Historiography ; History ; History instruction ; History of medicine ; History, 20th Century ; Social stratification ; Society ; Sociological research ; Sociology ; Studies ; United States history ; Veterans
  • Is Part Of: The American historical review, 2003-06, Vol.108 (3), p.763-793
  • Description: Catherine J. Kudlick introduces historians to disability as a central yet little-studied category of historical analysis. In a review of several seminal books in this field, she presents disability history as a new subject of scholarly inquiry that has far-reaching implications for both teaching and research about the past. Drawing from the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, this new history challenges traditionally held views that have dismissed disability as an individual's pathological condition of interest only to health professionals. Instead, Kudlick contends, the work of a growing number of scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences reveals disability to be as significant a defining social category as race, class, gender, and sexuality. As a result, she argues, disability should prompt historians in all fields and specialties to rethink virtually every "given" they have taken for granted. Kudlick develops this argument in an review of the literature that first looks at disability broadly to show the diversity of approaches in the field, then shifts to an analysis of deaf history, the field's most highly developed subgenre. She concludes the essay with a provocative contrast that challenges the field's dominant modern and Western assumptions with an example of medieval Islamic society's very different views of blindness. Kudlick's essay thus demonstrates the range and potential of disability history to alter our understanding of the past. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
  • Publisher: England: American Historical Association
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8762
    EISSN: 1937-5239
    DOI: 10.1086/529597
    PMID: 12964564
    CODEN: AMHRA2
  • Source: MEDLINE
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