1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455671703321

Autore

Bagchi Ann D (Ann Dalton)

Titolo

Making connections [[electronic resource] ] : a study of networking among immigrant professionals / / Ann D. Bagchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : LFB Scholarly, 2001

ISBN

1-931202-94-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

The new Americans

Disciplina

305.53/08691

Soggetti

Foreign workers - United States

Professional employees - Social networks - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Social networks and immigrant professionals -- The conceptualization of migrant networks -- Legislative and demographic impacts on network usage -- The network ties of Indian and Filipino immigrant professionals -- Pilot study of immigrant professionals in New York -- Findings from the study of immigrant professional networking.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451884603321

Autore

McRuer Robert <1966->

Titolo

Crip theory [[electronic resource] ] : cultural signs of queerness and disability / / Robert McRuer ; foreword by Michael Bérubé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-6109-7

0-8147-5986-6

1-4356-0039-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 pages)

Collana

Cultural front

Disciplina

306.76/601

Soggetti

Sociology of disability

Homosexuality - Social aspects

Heterosexuality - Social aspects

Marginality, Social

Culture

Queer theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence -- Coming out Crip : Malibu is burning -- Capitalism and disabled identity : Sharon Kowalski, interdependency, and queer domesticity -- Noncompliance : The transformation, Gary Fisher, and the limits of rehabilitation -- Composing queerness and disability : the corporate university and alternative corporealities -- Crip eye for the normate guy : queer theory, Bob Flanagan, and the disciplining of disability studies -- Epilogue : specters of disability.

Sommario/riassunto

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.  Drawing on feminist theory,



African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.