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Shifting Roots: Reimagining the Genealogical Roots of Disability Studies and Mad Studies through Women of Color Feminisms

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Johnk, Lzz

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This dissertation argues for rooting genealogies and origin stories of Disability Studies and Mad Studies in women of color feminist scholarship-activism. Turning to women of color feminist work as “alternative origin stories” shifts Disability Studies and Mad Studies away from limiting and often racist eurowestern models of Madness/disability. Women of...

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Dissertation
Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

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Kennedy, Tallon R.

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This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...

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Masters Thesis

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embodied experience of being queer in the present-day. 6 As David Gerber notes in his contribution to