Disability studies in India: global discourses, local realities /
edited by Renu Addlakha
- New delhi: Routledge, 2013.
- xvii, 441 p.
Part I. Disability Movement, Disability Rights and Disability Studies -- 1. Historicising Disability in India: Questions of Subject and Method Shilpaa Anand -- 2. Disability Rights and the Emergence of Disability Studies Jagdish Chander -- 3. Tracking Disability through the United Nations N. Sundaresan. -- Part II. Family, Care and Work -- 4. Prenatal Diagnosis: Where do We Draw the Line? Anita Ghai and Rachana Johri -- 5. Burden of Caring: Families of the Disabled in Urban India Upali Chakravarti -- 6. Exploring Constructs of Intellectual Disability and Personhood in Haryana and Delhi Nilika Mehrotra and Shubhangi Vaidya -- 7. Corporeality, Mobility and Class: An Ethnography of Work-related Experiences in Urban India Amit Upadhyay. -- Part III. Gender and Disability -- 8. Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal Nandini Ghosh -- 9. Body Politics and Disabled Femininity: Perspectives of Adolescent Girls from Delhi Renu Addlakha -- 10. Identity Formation and Transnational Discourses: Thinking beyond Identity Politics Michele Friedner -- 11. The Inner World of Adolescent Girls with Hearing Impairment: Two Case Studies Sandhya Limaye.-- Part IV. Assertion of Difference through Art and Communication -- 12. Body/Text: Art Project on Deafness and Communication Jose Abad Lorente -- 13. Blind With Camera: Photographs by the Visually Impaired Partho Bhowmick.-- Part V. Contesting Marginality at Micro- and Macro-levels -- 14. From Mental Illness to Disability: Choices for Women Users/Survivors of Psychiatry in Self and Identity Constructions Bhargavi V. Davar -- 15. Nee