Re-presenting disability
Subtitle: activism and agency in the museum
By: edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780415494717; 9780415494731
Other titles: Representing disability
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. New ways of seeing; title: Activist practice / Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd; title: Picturing people with disabilities : classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; title: Agents at Angkor / Lain Hart; title: 'See no evil' / Victoria Phiri; title: Ghosts in the War Museum / Ana Carden-Coyne; title: Behind the shadow of Merrick / David Hevey; title: Disability reframed : challenging visitor perceptions in the museum / Jocelyn Dodd ... [et al.]; title: pt. 2. Interpretive journeys and experiments; title: To label the label? : "learning disability" and exhibiting "critical proximity" / Helen Graham; title: Hurting and healing : reflections on representing experiences of mental illness in museums / Joanna Besley and Carol Low; title: Histories of disability and medicine : reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values / Julie Anderson and Lisa O'Sullivan; title: Revealing moments : representations of disability and sexuality / Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Jacobs; title: The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift / Geraldine Chimirri-Russell; title: Face to face : exhibiting and Interpreting facial disfigurement in a museum context / Emma Chambers; title: pt. 3. Unsettling practices; title: "Out from under" : a brief history of everything / Kathryn Church ... [et al.]; title: Transforming practice : disability perspectives and the museum / Shari Rosenstein Werb and Tari Hartman Squire; title: Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment : emancipatory principles and practices in the museum / Heather Hollins; title: Disability, human rights and the public gaze : the Losheng Story Museum / Chia-Li Chen; title: A museum for all? : the Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture / Hanna Mellemsether; title: Collective bodies : what museums do for disability studies / Katherine Ott.