New Narratives of Disability

Sara E. Green, Ph.D. is Director of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Program and Professor ofSociology at the University of South Florida, USA; past chair and career awardrecipient of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Disability& Society; and past co-chair of the ASA Committee on the Status of Personswith Disabilities. Donileen R. Loseke, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA; PastPresident of both the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and theSociety for the Study of Social Problems; and received the Mead, Cooley andMentor Awards from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

• Introduction Exploring Narrative as a Social Science Framework on Disability and Disabled People; Donileen R. Loseke & Sara E. Green Part I: Cultural Stories of Disability and Individual Lives Chapter 1. Reframing the Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: Resisting (Dis)Ability Stereotypes Through an Analysis of Children's Literature; Cheryl Najarian Souza Chapter 2. 'It's Not That Way You Know, She Has a Good Future': Women's Experiences of Disability and Community-Based Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka; Carmen Rebecca Britton & Laura Mauldin Chapter 3. Test Anxiety: Participation and Exclusion beyond the Institution; M. Nickie Coomer & Kenzie Latham-Mintus Chapter 4. Narratives of Care and Citizenship: Managing "Precariously Normal" Sons and Daughters in an Age of Inequality; Linda M. Blum Chapter 5. 'More Than a Parent, You're a Caregiver': Narratives of Fatherhood in Families of Adult Sons and Daughters with Life-Long Disabilities; Heidi Steinour & Sara E. Green Part II: Cultural Stories of Disability and Organizations Chapter 6.'You Won’t Tell That You Have Schizophrenia, Right? You Should Say You Have a Small Depression': Organizational Narratives of 'Adjusted' Workers with Disabilities and the Rhetoric of Reassurance in France; Lisa D. Buchter Chapter 7. 'I Want to Go Places on My Own': A Case-Study of Virginia Commonwealth University Ace-It in College; Stephanie J. Lau & Liza H. Weiss Chapter 8. More than Therapy: Conformity and Resistance in an Organizational Narrative of Disability and the Performing Arts; Melinda Leigh Maconi Part III: Cultural Stories of Disability and Social Policies Chapter 9. Narrative Productions of Problems and People in the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act; Melissa Jane Welch Chapter 10. Institutional and Personal Narratives of Chronic Pain Management: Interrogating the Medical and Social Models of Disability; Loren E. Wilbers Chapter 11. Stuck in Transition With You: Variable Pathways to In(ter)dependence for Emerging Adult Men With Mobility Impairments; J. Dalton Stevens Chapter 12. Conflicting Narratives of Corporeal Citizenship: Medicaid Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Policy and Experiences of Cross-State Move Plans and Pursuits; Brian R. Grossman Part IV: Cultural Stories of Disability and Resistance Chapter 13. Neither Victim Nor Super-Hero: Reflections on Disability and Mental Health Counseling; Richard A. Chapman Chapter 14. Self-Study of Intersectional and Emotional Narratives: Narrative Inquiry, Disability Studies in Education, and Praxis in Social Science Research; Lisa Boskovich, Mercedes Adell Cannon, David Hernandez-Saca, Laurie Gutmann Kahn & Emily A. Nusbaum Chapter 15. Neoliberalism and the Fight for the Child: Narratives of Queer Mothering; Ahoo Tabatabai Chapter 16. Sick and Tired: Narratives of Contested Illness in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Blogs; Morgan V. Sanchez Chapter 17. 'We Love Each Other Into Meaning': Queer Disabled Tumblr Users Constructing Identity Narratives through Love and Anger; Justine E. Egner