TY - BOOK AU - Longmore,Paul K. AU - Umansky,Lauri TI - The new disability history: American perspectives SN - 0814785638 (alk. paper) AV - N532n 2001 U1 - 305.9/0816 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - People with disabilities KW - United States KW - History KW - Sociology of disability KW - Handicap KW - âEtats-Unis KW - Histoire KW - Aspect sociologique KW - Gehandicapten KW - gtt KW - Sociologische aspecten N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Disability history : from the margins to the mainstream / Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky -- Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton -- "Speech has an extraordinary humanizing power" : Horace Mann and the problem of nineteenth-century American deaf education / R.A.R. Edwards -- "This unnatural and fratricidal strife" : a family's negotiation of the Civil War, deafness, and independence / Hannah Joyner -- "Trying to idle" : work and disability in The diary of Alice James / Natalie A. Dykstra -- A pupil and a patient : hospital-schools in progressive America / Brad Byrom -- Cold charity : manhood, brotherhood, and the transformation of disability, 1870-1900 / John Williams-Searle -- The outlook of The problem and the problem with the Outlook : two advocacy journals reinvent blind people in turn-of-the-century America / Catherine J. Kudlick -- Reading between the signs : defending deaf culture in early twentieth-century America / Susan Burch -- Medicine, bureaucracy, and social welfare : the politics of disability compensation for American veterans of World War I / K. Walter Hickel -- Helen Keller and the politics of civic fitness / Kim Nielsen -- Martyred mothers and merciful fathers : exploring disability and motherhood in the lives of Jerome Greenfield and Raymond Repouille / Janice A. Brockley -- Blind and enlightened : the contested origins of the egalitarian politics of the Blinded Veterans Association / David A. Gerber -- Seeing the disabled : visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- American disability policy in the twentieth century / Richard K. Scotch UR - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c5p7-aa UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/00011661-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/00011661-d.html ER -