Rosemarie Garland‐thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 241841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemarie Garland‐thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Garland‐thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3999-6012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 451 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Finding Disability in Everyday Life
This commentary explicates the social and cultural work of the word “disability” by reviewing the history of the civil and human rights movements and of legislation establishing people with disabilities as a social group protected from discrimination and entitled to the right to request reasonable accommodations—a legislative initiative that has shifted “disability” from a predominantly medical label to a social and political identity
No Longer the Only One in the Room
The article is an edited transcription of a three-way conversation, or trialogue, chronicling a collective participation in the emergence and growth of disability studies over the past thirty years. The authors divide their memories into specific sites or “rooms,” both public and private, where they discover the power and pleasure of uniting to create change. They map a journey from uncertainty and isolation in the past to solidarity and support …
Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care
In this essay, we suggest practical ways to shift the framing of crisis standards of care toward disability justice. We elaborate on the vision statement provided in the 2010 Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) “Summary of Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations,” which emphasizes fairness; equitable processes; community and provider engagement, education, and communication; and the rule …
What Do Unusual Faces Teach Us About the Ethics of Recognition
With close attention to the film Wonder , this article examines how a narrative of community acceptance offers sustaining relationships for people with unusual facial appearance. This article argues that premodern responses of wonder can help reframe modern understandings of looking different
Unexpected Creatures
One of the most recent and original adaptations of Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is the ballet version choreographed by Liam Scarlett and performed by the Royal Ballet in 2016 and the San Francisco Ballet in 2017 and 2018. What emerges from this translation is an economical, emotionally wrenching, and visually elegant drama of family tragedy from which we can draw a cautionary tale about con…
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree: Choreographies of Family Obligation in the Ballet of Frankenstein Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (bio) Their stories point a way for all of us to expand our definitions of the human family. Intimacy with difference fosters its accommodation. —Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree Frankenstein is, like many canonical literary works, generative, traveling across time, place, and form as it is adapted to the various uses of literary narrat…
Eugenic World Building and Disability
A Habitable World
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Disability and social theory
This collection of essays, appropriately dedicated to the memory of disability activist and theorist Vic Finkelstein, ambitiously draws together 16 chapters written by a wide range of scholarly res
Disability Studies
Disability Studies: A Field Emerged Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (bio) Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. By Mel Y. Chen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 312 pages. $84.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 218 pages. $84.50 (cloth). $28.95 (paper). A Disability History of the United States. B…
The Case for Conserving Disability
Misfits
This article offers the critical concept misfit in an effort to further think through the lived identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit and the situation of misfitting that I offer here elaborate a materialist feminist understanding of disability by extending a consideration of how the particularities of embodiment interact with the environment in its broadest sense, to include both its spat…
Staring How We Look
From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take…
Ways of Staring
This article considers how staring informs the ways we know each other and the world around us. Staring, a complex, nuanced, and meaning-laden social interaction, can take many forms: arrested, separated, or engaged. It is an intense encounter which is sometimes a random, idiosyncratic confrontation and at other times a highly structured social ritual driven by the collective impulse to look. This article argues that staring often defines the rel…
Narrative Prosthesis
Book Review| June 01 2006 Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 411–412. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; Narrative Prosthesis: Disability an…
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
Feminist Disability Studies
The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia
Research Article| December 01 2004 The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby" Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-777 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory
This essay aims to amplify feminist theory by articulating and fostering feminist disability theory. It names feminist disability studies as an academic field of inquiry, describes work that is already underway, calls for needed study and sets an agenda for future work in feminist disability studies. Feminist disability theory augments the terms and confronts the limits of the ways we understand human diversity, the materiality of the body, multi…
Misfits
This article offers the critical concept misfit in an effort to further think through the lived identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit and the situation of misfitting that I offer here elaborate a materialist feminist understanding of disability by extending a consideration of how the particularities of embodiment interact with the environment in its broadest sense, to include both its spat…
Feminist Disability Studies
Disability Studies
Disability Studies: A Field Emerged Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (bio) Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. By Mel Y. Chen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 312 pages. $84.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 218 pages. $84.50 (cloth). $28.95 (paper). A Disability History of the United States. B…
A Habitable World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
Disability and social theory
This collection of essays, appropriately dedicated to the memory of disability activist and theorist Vic Finkelstein, ambitiously draws together 16 chapters written by a wide range of scholarly res
The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia
Research Article| December 01 2004 The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby" Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-777 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory
This essay aims to amplify feminist theory by articulating and fostering feminist disability theory. It names feminist disability studies as an academic field of inquiry, describes work that is already underway, calls for needed study and sets an agenda for future work in feminist disability studies. Feminist disability theory augments the terms and confronts the limits of the ways we understand human diversity, the materiality of the body, multi…
The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia
Research Article| December 01 2004 The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby" Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-777 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
Feminist Disability Studies
Ways of Staring
This article considers how staring informs the ways we know each other and the world around us. Staring, a complex, nuanced, and meaning-laden social interaction, can take many forms: arrested, separated, or engaged. It is an intense encounter which is sometimes a random, idiosyncratic confrontation and at other times a highly structured social ritual driven by the collective impulse to look. This article argues that staring often defines the rel…
Narrative Prosthesis
Book Review| June 01 2006 Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 411–412. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; Narrative Prosthesis: Disability an…
Staring How We Look
From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take…
Misfits
This article offers the critical concept misfit in an effort to further think through the lived identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit and the situation of misfitting that I offer here elaborate a materialist feminist understanding of disability by extending a consideration of how the particularities of embodiment interact with the environment in its broadest sense, to include both its spat…
The Case for Conserving Disability
Disability Studies
Disability Studies: A Field Emerged Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (bio) Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. By Mel Y. Chen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 312 pages. $84.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture. By Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 218 pages. $84.50 (cloth). $28.95 (paper). A Disability History of the United States. B…
A Habitable World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Disability and social theory
This collection of essays, appropriately dedicated to the memory of disability activist and theorist Vic Finkelstein, ambitiously draws together 16 chapters written by a wide range of scholarly res
Eugenic World Building and Disability
Unexpected Creatures
One of the most recent and original adaptations of Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is the ballet version choreographed by Liam Scarlett and performed by the Royal Ballet in 2016 and the San Francisco Ballet in 2017 and 2018. What emerges from this translation is an economical, emotionally wrenching, and visually elegant drama of family tragedy from which we can draw a cautionary tale about con…
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree: Choreographies of Family Obligation in the Ballet of Frankenstein Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (bio) Their stories point a way for all of us to expand our definitions of the human family. Intimacy with difference fosters its accommodation. —Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree Frankenstein is, like many canonical literary works, generative, traveling across time, place, and form as it is adapted to the various uses of literary narrat…
What Do Unusual Faces Teach Us About the Ethics of Recognition
With close attention to the film Wonder , this article examines how a narrative of community acceptance offers sustaining relationships for people with unusual facial appearance. This article argues that premodern responses of wonder can help reframe modern understandings of looking different
Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care
In this essay, we suggest practical ways to shift the framing of crisis standards of care toward disability justice. We elaborate on the vision statement provided in the 2010 Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) “Summary of Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations,” which emphasizes fairness; equitable processes; community and provider engagement, education, and communication; and the rule …
No Longer the Only One in the Room
The article is an edited transcription of a three-way conversation, or trialogue, chronicling a collective participation in the emergence and growth of disability studies over the past thirty years. The authors divide their memories into specific sites or “rooms,” both public and private, where they discover the power and pleasure of uniting to create change. They map a journey from uncertainty and isolation in the past to solidarity and support …
Finding Disability in Everyday Life
This commentary explicates the social and cultural work of the word “disability” by reviewing the history of the civil and human rights movements and of legislation establishing people with disabilities as a social group protected from discrimination and entitled to the right to request reasonable accommodations—a legislative initiative that has shifted “disability” from a predominantly medical label to a social and political identity
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)