[Commlist] new book: Dis/ability in Media, Law and History

New book announcement
Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND 
Socially Constructed?
Edited by Micky Lee (Suffolk University, Boston), Frank Rudy Cooper 
(William S. Boyd School of Law at University of Nevada - Las Vegas), Pat 
Reeve (Suffolk University, Boston)

Now out with Routledge, Dis/ability in Media, Law and History explores 
how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social 
representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay 
of which render bodies "normal" or not.

Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling 
influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand 
their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking 
questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed 
people’s experiences of their bodies and their fight for substantive 
equality. Understanding these processes requires acknowledging the 
tension between social construction and embodiment as well as centering 
the intersection of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, 
class, gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on.

The book collects 15 original essays contributed by scholars in media 
studies, law, and history.

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