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Histories of Disability and Emotions: Reclaiming Pain, Agency, and Intersectionality

Histories of Disability and Emotions: Reclaiming Pain, Agency, and Intersectionality

Dubourg, Ninon
Scalenghe, Sara
Verstraete, Pieter

Hardcover

Series: Disability History

Medical ReferenceGeneral LawGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 10, 2026

ISBN10: 1807070549
ISBN13: 9781807070540
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This volume shows how emotions have not merely accompanied disability but fundamentally shaped its history. From early modern pain narratives to twentieth-century activism, its chapters reveal how feelings like joy, fear, anger and pride have defined the lived experience of disability and influenced how others have represented it. Exploring intersections with race, gender, caste, and labour, the book emotional worlds, ranging from enslaved men in the nineteenth-century United States to schoolchildren in colonial India. It shows how disabled people have reclaimed emotional expression as a source of agency and resistance, transforming pity into protest and isolation into solidarity. Drawing on rich case studies across continents and centuries, the volume reframes disability as an affective experience deeply embedded in social power, cultural meaning, and historical change. It urges us to rethink the stories we tell about bodies, emotions and belonging.

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