Disability Rhetoric by Jay Timothy Dolmage

This book argues that disability is produced and contested through rhetoric, showing how language, imagery, institutions, and design shape what counts as normal or disabled. Drawing on history, law, medicine, architecture, technology, and education, it reveals how discourse and material practices exclude or enable people with disabilities and offers rhetorical strategies for inclusive design, pedagogy, and activism. By linking disability studies with rhetorical theory, it reframes disability as both a political and communicative phenomenon and proposes practical interventions to promote accessibility and equity.

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