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