a disability history of the united states by kim e nielsen

Maria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at William & Mary University in Virginia, USA. Her current book project is titled City of Broken Men: Disability, Memory, and Masculinity at the End of World War Two.ĭr. the mid-twentieth century. Her research focuses on disability, gender, sexuality, medicine, and the body in the Soviet context. Professor Bernstein’s first book, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masseswas published in 2007. Frances Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, USA.

Her current research project focuses on developing a platform for the study of the history of disabilities in Eastern Europe.ĭr. Professor Bucur’s first book, Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania, was published in 2002. She has published extensively on gender, eugenic, medicine, and disability in interwar and state socialist Romania. Maria Bucur is Professor of Gender Studies and History at Indiana University in the USA.

A small crowd of children stand to his right and look down at him.ĭownload show notes (compiled by Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon) here. He sits on a street curb surrounded by standing military personnel on his right hand side. The author of three books, including two on Helen Keller and one on Anne Sullivan Macy, Nielsen is a professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.Episode image: A disabled Soviet veteran with no legs sits in a wheelchair that rolls several inches above the ground. Included are absorbing - at times horrific - narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington.Ī Disability History of the United States reinterprets how we view a nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all. Nielsen illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience - from deciding who was allowed to immigrate and establishing labor laws to justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Throughout the book, historian and disability scholar Kim E.

history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative.

A disability history of the united states by kim e nielsen