We have agreed to provide within the journal a list of completed theses in the field of Disability Studies. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation for theses completed within two years of conferment which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
Please provide the following information:
Name of author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year
A 100-word synopsis of the thesis
Email address
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We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
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Name of author: Erika Rodriguez
Thesis title: Crip Time and Fin-de-Siècle Spain: Disability, Degeneration, and Eugenics
University awarding degree: Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019
Crip Time in Fin-de-siècle Spain examines how turn-of-the-twentieth-century authors used representations of disability to engage in urgent political questions about population control and the rights of individuals in the face of increasing medical intervention. Scholarship from scientific and economic disciplines of the time shaped expectations for health around ideas of national progress. The inability to satisfy work schedules and heteronormative life milestones simultaneously became threats to social progress and markers of disability. This project demonstrates that literary depictions of disability questioned medical and political discourses, while exploring the precarity of being healthy/able-bodied at a historical moment in which health and ability were defined in continuously narrowing terms.
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