New narratives of disability: constructions, clashes, and controversies

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 -- Index.

This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability through questions about narrative frameworks in disability research.Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal.