Review by Valerie Moyer, Stony Brook University, Email: valerie.moyer@stonybrook.edu Keywords: sports, Japan, physical disability In More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability…
Author: Ioana Chis
Review by Julie Van Dam, University of Southern California, Email: julie.vandam@usc.edu Keywords: sex, sexuality, gender expression, physical disabilities, South Africa, social change It seems appropriate…
Review by Kenya Loud, Yale University, Email: kenya.loudd@yale.edu Keywords: Anti-Racism; Black Feminism; Health Disparities In the 2021 book, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in…
Reviewed by David Adelman, Email: David.adelman@utdallas.edu Cynthia Barounis’s Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood (2019, Temple University Press) is a study…
Review by Slava Greenberg, University of Southern California, Email: slavagre@usc.edu Keywords: identity; mental illness The debate over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…
Review by Kristen J. Loutensock, Email: ksock3@gmail.com Keywords: bioethics; medicine; Narrative Studies In this collection of essays, editors Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette approach the…
Review by Suchaita Tenneti, Email: suchaita1987@gmail.com Keywords: identity; mental illness; demedicalization; Mad Studies Dutch philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters’ A Philosophy of Madness could be…
Reviewed by Christina V. Cedillo, University of Houston-Clear Lake, email: cedilloc@uhcl.edu Keywords: Mexico; children Susan Antebi’s Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production takes…
Reviewed by Megan Q. Linton, Carleton University, Email: megan.linton@carleton.ca Never has the contemporary global populace thought, critiqued, and relied more on the World Health Organization…
Review by Olivia Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Email: ohenderson@ucsb.edu and Shaun Nowicki, Email: shaunnowicki@ucsb.edu Keywords: Britain; art; contemporary disability theater; advocacy Joining the…