Writing the History of Disabilities
Agency, Intersections, Concepts
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Writing the History of Disabilities
Agency, Intersections, Concepts
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This book uses a variety of case studies to examine how disability can be used as an analytical lens, and provide new perspectives on historical research.
Approximately 15-20% of the world's population is estimated to be disabled. Writing the History of Disability examines 13 case studies, ranging from the activism of Italian First World War veterans, to the social history of Tuberculosis in North America, and the history of disability in sport. Each chapter encourages wider historical engagement with the social and cultural impacts of disability, and demonstrates how the history of disability can interact with existing theoretical frameworks.
This book demonstrates the potential for disability as an analytical concept, both in its own right, and as a new approach to the study of history. Illuminating the intersections between disability and class, race, gender, and sexuality, this volume examines disability alongside a range of historical methodologies, and invites students to include disability in their analytical toolkit, and create more inclusive histories.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Monika Baár (EUI, Italy) and Paul van Trigt (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Part I: Agency
2. Italian Veterans of the Great War and their Repertoire of Activism, Martina Salvante (University of Nottingham, UK)
3. The Agency of Blind Women in Metropolitan France in the first half of the 20th Century, Gildas Brégain (EHESS, Rennes, France)
4. Resistance of Disabled People during the Holocaust, Marianne Hirschberg (Kassel University, Germany) and Angela Wegscheider (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)
5. Claiming Normality: The Manifold Meanings of Deafness in the Twentieth Century, Radu Dinu & Staffan Bengtsson (both Jönköping University, Sweden)
Part II: Intersections (with Class, Race, Gender and Sexuality)
6. Postcolonial Approaches to Disability History: British Missionaries and Indian and Chinese Children, c. 1880-1940, Esme Cleall (Sheffield University, UK)
7. 'Your Dominion Has Palsied Him': Dependence, Labour, and Antislavery Imagery in the Antebellum United States, Dea Boster (Columbus State Community College, USA)
8. Disability, Gender, Care and Class in the Context of the 1937 Barbados Labour Protests, Stefanie van Dam (University of Cambridge, UK)
9. Disabled Queer Histories in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands, Noah Littel (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Part III: Methods/Themes
10. Deaf History in German-Speaking Europe: Concepts, Histories, and Challenges, Marion Schmidt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Sweden) and Anja Werner (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
11. Disability and Medical History: Patient Perspectives and the History of Madness in the US, Michael Rembis (University of Buffalo, USA)
12. Disability and Religion after the Second World War: from Histories of Opposition to Entangled Histories
Paul van Trigt (Leiden University, Netherlands)
13. The History of Un/Doing Disability in Sport, Florian Kiuppis (Catholic University of Freiburg, Germany)
14. Disability Studies Meets the History of Concepts: Independence as an Analytical Category. Monika Baar (EUI, Italy)
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350521742 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Writing History |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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