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标题：Disability as diversity:a difference with a difference
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作者：G. Thomas Couser
期刊名称：Ilha do Desterro
印刷版ISSN：0101-4846
电子版ISSN：2175-8026
出版年度：2005
卷号：0
期号：48
页码：095-113
语种：English
出版社：Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
摘要：Disability is a fundamental facet of human diversity, yet it lags behind race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and class in recognition inside and outside the academy. Disability has its own history (or histories) and culture(s) which deserve to be studied in their own right. Disability Studies is not limited to the study of disabled people as a distinct population, however; rather, it involves the comprehensive investigation of disability as a cultural construct that undergirds social practices and cultural representations. As contemporary Disability Studies scholars view it, then, disability is a significant and powerful cultural category; like race and gender, disability is a cultural construct that assigns traits to individuals— and discriminates among them—on the basis of bodily differences. Today, disabled people, long vulnerable to prejudicial representation in high and low culture, are challenging conventional assumptions by representing themselves in memoir and autobiography.
关键词：disability;diversity;Disability Studies;impairment;narrative