Review by Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, edonalds@nyit.edu La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and…
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Review by Conor Moynihan. Email: conor.g.moynihan@gmail.com In the anthology Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and After Bob Flanagan (2020), editor Yetta Howard advances the thesis…
Review by Alexis Riley, The University of Texas at Austin, Email: aariley@utexas.edu Writhing Writing: Towards a Mad Poetics is a book that moves. Over the…
Review by Brittney Miles Ela Przybylo’s Asexual Erotics explores how asexualities can be explored through erotic frames and representations, and it expands our conception of…
Review by Leah Pope Parker, University of Southern Mississippi, Email: Leah.Parker@usm.edu Keywords: spirituality, religion, Deafness Lana Portolano’s Be Opened!: The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture…
Review by Brooke E. Hotez, DSU, Email: brooke.hotez@dixie.edu Keywords: developmental disabilities, anthroposophy, curative education, ethnography, genealogy, sexual assualt, autonomy Camphill and the Future: Spirituality and…
Reviewed by Helena L. Martin, Yale University, Email: helena.martin@yale.edu Keywords: hell; afterlife; ethics; Christianity; gender How do hell’s punishments reveal a culture’s beliefs about the…
Reviewed by Keith Rosenthal, City University of New York, Email: keith.rosenthal38@spsmail.cuny.edu Keywords: folk music; Woody Guthrie; sexuality; communism; institutionalization Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life is…
Review by Amanda Apgar, Loyola Marymount University Parents of children with disabilities often describe themselves as inhabiting an unfamiliar world. By this, they are sometimes…
Review by Pamela Kaye Wright, Texas A&M University—Kingsville, Email: pamela.wright@tamuk.edu Keywords: Deafness, medicine In her “Preface” to Hearing Happiness, Jaipreet Virdi explains her goal is…