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Ableist Rhetoric:

How We Know, Value, and See Disability
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Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion.


Acknowledgments

1. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Ableism

2. Fearing Disability and the Possession Narrative

3. Ableism and the Cochlear Implant Debate

4. Sport as Ableist Institution

5. A Rhetorical Model of Disability

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Bibliography

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“Cherney shows how the powerful but mostly invisible rhetoric of ableism shapes beliefs about disability. Carefully argued case studies—from The Exorcist, to the cochlear implant debate, to the Casey Martin controversy—illustrate how ableism operates through the warrants of ‘deviance is evil,’ ‘normal is natural,’ ‘body is able’ and across epistemic, ideological, and visual dimensions. They form the heart of the book, making it accessible and engaging for use in an undergraduate rhetoric or disability studies course.”

—Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, coeditor of Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture

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