Disability Studies Quarterly

Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

Vol 29, No 4 (2009): Disabled Shakespeares / Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop on Disability, Culture, and Human Rights

Table of Contents

Prefatory Matter

Calls for Papers and Announcements HTML
Brenda Brueggemann, Scot Danforth

Disabled Shakespeares

Introduction, "Disabled Shakespeares" HTML
Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood
Caesar Hath the Falling Sickness: The Legibility of Early Modern Disability in Shakespearean Drama Abstract HTML
Allison P. Hobgood
“The lying’st knave in Christendom”: The Development of Disability in the False Miracle of St. Alban’s Abstract HTML
Lindsey Row-Heyveld
Shakespeare's Henry VIII: Stigmatizing the "Disabled" Womb Abstract HTML
Mary K. Nelson
Disability and the Characterization of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew Abstract HTML
Rachel E. Hile
Enabling Richard: The Rhetoric of Disability in Richard III Abstract HTML
Katherine Schaap Williams
"Fluster’d with flowing cups": Alcoholism, Humoralism, and the Prosthetic Narrative in Othello Abstract HTML
David Houston Wood

Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop

Introduction HTML
Philip Armstrong, Nina Berman, Kimani Njogu, Mbugua wa-Mungai
Reflections on the Disability, Culture, and Human Rights Workshop HTML
Willy Mutunga

Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Personal Narratives and Reactions to the Workshop

Living With Learning HTML
Nereas N Gicoru Hirst
Between Disability and Womanhood: The Everyday Struggles and Triumphs of a Kenyan Woman HTML
Beneditta Ngina Gathecha
Dear Diary: The Story of a Disabled Asian Woman HTML
Nafisa Khanbhai
“My Journey Across Ridges”: An Interview with Theodoto Ressa HTML
Theodoto Ressa
Bringing Back the Baby Lion: Reflections on the Conference on Disability, Culture, and Human Rights HTML
Marian E Lupo
A Pentadic Reflection, Personal and Professional, on the OSU-Kenya Exchange. HTML
Brenda Brueggemann

Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Disability and Culture: Folklore, Religion, and Identity

Media and Disability in Kenya Abstract HTML
Kimani Njogu
"For I name thee…": Disability Onomastics in Kenyan Folklore and Popular Music HTML
Mbugua wa-Mungai
Negotiating Local Knowledge II: Kiswahili and Attitudes toward Disability HTML
Ken Walibora Waliaula
Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Disability: Implications on the Rights of Persons with Disability in Kenya HTML
Pauline A Otieno
Disability and Identity HTML
Margaret Wangui Murugami

Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Disability, Communities, and the State

The Right to Work: A Strategy For Addressing the Invisibility of Persons With Disability HTML
S K Tororei
Beyond (Human) Rights? Abstract HTML
Philip Armstrong
Cultural Perspectives in Language and Speech Disorders Abstract HTML
Ruth Ndung'u, Mathew Kinyua
Negotiating Local Knowledge: Networking Disability on the Community Level Abstract HTML
Nina Berman
Enhancing the Full Potential of Persons with Disabilities through Sports in the 21st Century Abstract HTML
Mwangi P Wanderi, Andanje Mwisukha, Peter W Bukhala
Disability in Contexts of Displacement HTML
Michael Karanja

Book and Film Reviews

Review of Synechdoche, New York HTML
David Church
Review of Bye-Bye Charlie HTML
James Trent
Review of Staring: How We Look HTML
Stephen Kuusisto
Review of Staging Stigma HTML
Ann Fox



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