Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma| Examining Brenda Connors' 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric

<p> Within political discourse, tropes of ability and disability are rhetorically applied in a way that stigmatizes particular individuals or groups by associating the targets of such rhetoric with preexisting normative perspectives framing able-bodiedness as valuable, and disability as undesi...

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Main Author: Fletcher, Brandon
Language:EN
Published: California State University, Long Beach 2017
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