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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460081103321

Autore

Stuckey Zosha <1971->

Titolo

A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / / Zosha Stuckey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5303-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

362.3/850974766

Soggetti

Intellectual disability facilities - United States - History

Intellectual disability facilities - New York (State) - History

People with mental disabilities - Education - United States - History

Intellectual disability facilities patients - United States - History

Intellectual disability - United States - History

Sociology of disability - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School""; ""Minding the Gap""; ""Rhetoric""; ""Rhetoric and Remnants""; ""The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution""; ""Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics""; ""Review of Chapters""; ""2. “Confusion into Order Changed�: The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization ""; ""Introduction""; ""The Noble Asylum""; ""The School""; ""The Prison""; ""The Described and the Counted""; ""The Nameless Idiot""

""The Visited and the Displayed""""Conclusion""; ""3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of “Special� (All) Education ""; ""The Roots of “Special� Education ""; ""All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations""; ""The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System""; ""The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking""; ""Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas""; ""Imitation as Social Relation""; ""Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation"";



""After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading""

""The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil""""Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances""; ""A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly Affairs""; ""The Farm and the Sewing Room""; ""Burgeoning of the Asylum""; ""A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation""; ""4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive""; ""Introduction""; ""Layers of Discourse""; ""Overview of the Letters""; ""Letters To Mrs. Thornton""; ""Harmony and Accord""; ""Tension and Discordance""; ""Listening Further""

""Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution""""Listening Even Further""; ""5. Conclusion: Idiocy�An Old, Worn-Out Story ""; ""The Sheltered Workshop versus the World""; ""The Price of “Education� ""; ""Inscribing Presence""; ""Straightening Up and Straightening Out""; ""Strength in Variation""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""