Beschreibung:
Faye Ginsburg is Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Co-director of the Center for Disability Studies, and the author and editor of several books including Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Rayna Rapp is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New York University and the author and editor of several books including Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America.
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Encountering Disability Worlds 1 1. The Doubled Telos of Modernity: Genetic Screening, Atypical Brains, and Neurodiversity 27 2. New Kinship Imaginaries and Their Limits 49 3. The Paradox of Recognition and the Social Production of Moxie 83 4. Transitioning to Nowhere? 120 5. Living Otherwise: Worlding Disability Arts 154 6. Disability Worlds / Disability Futures 187 Notes 221 Bibliography 233 Index 267