Disabling Domesticity
Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction
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EDITED BY
MICHAEL REMBIS
Disabling Domesticity
Michael Rembis Editor
Disabling Domesticity
Editor Michael Rembis University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, New York, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-48768-1 ISBN 978-1-137-48769-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-48769-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959484 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © Charles Dean Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.
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Foreword
It is a distinct pleasure to write this foreword to Disabling Domesticity. As anthropologists researching kinship, family, and disability, we are delighted to welcome such a groundbreaking volume. This book deploys the insights of disability studies to examine how domestic life in North America is “cripped” by the experiences of living life with a difference. We also write as parents of children with disabilities; our households have been shaped by their needs, along with those of increasingly frail elderly family members whose bodies and minds are declining. We thus read this book with the double vision that our own caregiving and scholarship provide; these identities deepen our appreciation for the attention each author brings to what it means to disable domesticity. This wide-ranging collection offers exciting contributions by a vigorous group of outstanding “hybridized intersectional” writers, as the editor notes. They are historians of social life and its material culture, sociologists, as well as scholars of literature, architecture and design, gender studies, American studies, science studies, health sciences, and (of course) disability studies. All have important interventions to make in using disability perspectives to critically rethink home, care, and family, the thre
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