Review by Leah Pope Parker, University of Southern Mississippi, Email: Leah.Parker@usm.edu Keywords: spirituality, religion, Deafness Lana Portolano’s Be Opened!: The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture…
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Review by Brooke E. Hotez, DSU, Email: brooke.hotez@dixie.edu Keywords: developmental disabilities, anthroposophy, curative education, ethnography, genealogy, sexual assualt, autonomy Camphill and the Future: Spirituality and…
Reviewed by Helena L. Martin, Yale University, Email: helena.martin@yale.edu Keywords: hell; afterlife; ethics; Christianity; gender How do hell’s punishments reveal a culture’s beliefs about the…
Reviewed by Keith Rosenthal, City University of New York, Email: keith.rosenthal38@spsmail.cuny.edu Keywords: folk music; Woody Guthrie; sexuality; communism; institutionalization Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life is…
Review by Amanda Apgar, Loyola Marymount University Parents of children with disabilities often describe themselves as inhabiting an unfamiliar world. By this, they are sometimes…
Review by Pamela Kaye Wright, Texas A&M University—Kingsville, Email: pamela.wright@tamuk.edu Keywords: Deafness, medicine In her “Preface” to Hearing Happiness, Jaipreet Virdi explains her goal is…
Reviewed by Ren Reyes, University of California San Diego, Email: avr009@ucsd.edu Keywords: Japanese culture, representation, media studies Can manga be successfully used as a platform…
Review by Corrine Li, Email: corrine.li@aol.com Keywords: history; humor In Seriously Funny: Disability & the Paradoxical Power of Humor, Bingham and Green show that cultural…
Review by Tracey Edelist, University of Toronto, Email: tracey.edelist@mail.utoronto.ca Keywords: biography, memoir, medicine, Deafness, oralism Katie Booths’ The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander…
Review by Hannah Bingham Brunne, Oklahoma State University, Email: hannah.bingham_brunner@okstate.edu Keywords: metagnosis, biography/memoir, identity, selfhood, medicine, identity, adult diagnosis In Metagnosis: Revelatory narratives of health…