Racialized Bodies Disabling Worlds

by Dossa, Parin

• ISBN13: 9780802098177
• ISBN10: 0802098177
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-03
• 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.

Author Biography

Parin Dossa is a professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.