Search Results for stigma

..., I should have disclosed my disability, thereby giving students the opportunity to engage a stigmatized “other” in a dialogic setting. As a suggestion for how to facilitate this kind of engagement, I offer the lesson plan I wish I would have followed in response to encountering stigma...

... scientific/historical landmark events as might be traditionally defined; continually interrogating the historiography of HIV/AIDS; emphasizing the diverse identities and lived experiences of HIV/AIDS; exploring how stigma can thwart science and oppress others and how that has been answered by the arts...

... the multiculturalization or decolonization of English studies exhibit the stigma of canonical disorder, which persists and takes on addi- tional meaning in the wake of liberal canon reformation. The term stigma does not here refer to a moral or aesthetic judgment on any of the supposedly non great texts that first...

... . 2003 . “ The Ways We Disclose: When Life-Writing Becomes Writing Your Life .” In Lewiecki-Wilson and Brueggemann , Disability and the Teaching of Writing , 130 – 35 . Coleman Lerita M. 2006 [1986] . “ Stigma: An Enigma Demystified .” In Davis , The Disability Studies Reader , 141...

... . Saguy Abigail Ward Anna . 2011 . “ Coming Out as Fat: Rethinking Stigma .” Social Psychology Quarterly 74 : 53 – 75 . Salamon Gayle . 2010 . Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality . New York : Columbia University Press . Stetsenko Anna . 2008...

... about mental illness, and since the students were keenly aware of stereotypes and stigma associated with madness, it seems unlikely that they disclosed without knowing the kinds of responses they might get in a general population. If they didn't know at the beginning of the term, they soon learned...

... their Englishes on high-stakes standardized tests and writing. I have come to wonder: Is this really the double speak we wish to preach?” (131). In the chapter “Code-Meshing through Self-Directed Writing” Lovejoy elaborates on this double-speak stigma and explains how college and university faculty might...

... with the intention of asking to see a psychiatrist. I got as far as the stairwell just outside the clinic, but was only able to sit there, paralyzed with fear and shame” (45). Anxiety about stigma and ignorance kept her from opening that door. She waited several years before taking another step, exemplifying...

... aesthetics stigma unspeakable linguistic communication Works Cited Albrecht Gary L. Seelman Catherine D. Bury Michael . 2001 . “Introduction: The Formation of Disability Studies.” In Handbook of Disability Studies , ed. Albrecht Gary L. Seelman Catherine D. Bury...

... among violence against women, the welfare system, and higher education. A key point made is that many women apply for welfare benefits because they are attempting to leave abusive rela- tionships. Andrea S. Harris writes of having to constantly confront the stigma of being a welfare recipient...

... of Student Writing and What We Might Make of Its Beautiful Disruptions.” As Michael, a white, cisgender undergraduate in a midwestern university, grapples with stepping out of his comfort zone to research the stigma faced by transgender communities, he reaches a moment of struggle in the drafting process...

... Lerita M. Coleman . 2010 . “Stigma: An Enigma Demystified.” In The Disability Studies Reader , 3rd ed. , ed. Davis Lennard J. , 179 – 92 . New York : Routledge . Brueggemann Brenda Jo . 1996 . “Still-Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role...

... and classes opened to interactive, hands-on electronic learning, are regularly depicted; they are accused of deploying the stigma of illiteracy to coerce stu- dents into reading books. Cynthia Selfe (1999) uses the dismissive buzz term traditional values (or variations on it) eleven times in two pages...

... academic context) is that the importance of literacy for all demographics remains constant. As receiving a college education becomes more the norm, those who are plagued with cultural stigmas often feel the need to empower themselves by adopting academic language. As a doctoral student, I feel...

... terminology, referring to several studies dealing with the rise of professionalization and professional status. Professional status has long been a sought-after middle-class ideal. Historically, the professions were available only to men; thus there was a stigma attached to women’s contributions...

... with pervasive stigma and without services, public school programs, or easily accessible medical care, while also acknowledging the horrific conditions that prevailed in the large state-­run institutions. Through the use of audiovisual material that includes interviews with parents and guest speakers...

...’ positioning in dis- courses of “normal”; from the use of disability autobiography in English seminars to classroom dynamics when teachers “expose” their disabilities; from the experience of stigma for students identified as learning disabled to the impact of disability rights law on education...

... emerge. Consider the discussion of biological reality, social stigma, and the complications of “cure” in X-­Men: The Last Stand (2006), the paranoia about the dangers of disability in The Amazing Spiderman (2012), or the meditation on the relationship between disability and motivation embodied...

... by the perception of an individual who may feel depersonalized and overshadowed by stereotypical assumptions and prejudices.” Coll insists that this type of invisibility “often plagues our veteran population with subjugation of stigmas such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), military sexual trauma...

..., but perhaps there was even an unspoken stigma against admitting that I did not know everything and that I might want some assistance. But it isn’t, I’ve found, only the newly tenure-tracked who share my feelings. A few years ago, recruiting participants for a faculty learning com- munity...