Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds

by Dossa, Parin

• ISBN13: 9780802095510
• ISBN10: 0802095518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-13
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds , Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women -- who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research -- define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life.Based on narrative ethnography, Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds makes a case for positive acknowledgement of perceived differences of nationality, religion, multiple-abilities, and gendered and race-based identities. It offers a powerful argument for bridging two disparate bodies of work: disability studies and anti-racist feminism. Most significantly, it shows how racialized Muslim women with disabilities are redefining the parameters of their social worlds and developing a distinctively pluralistic understanding of abilities. This ground-breaking work gives presence to the lives of people who are otherwise rendered socially invisible.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Mapping the Methodology and Sociopolitical Contexts	p. 10
The Difference of Disability	p. 31
Narrative Moments from the Margins	p. 64
Writing Dislocation: Telling Her-story	p. 92
Women as Subject: Multi-voiced Narration	p. 121
Conclusion: Alternative Spaces - Establishing Connections	p. 151
Notes	p. 165
References	p. 171
Index	p. 185
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