Harriet Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0510-2669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shame, Enchantment, and the "There-ness" of Disability in The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been a repugnant object for contemporary scholars of disability studies because of the equivalence it draws between able embodiment and morality. While scholars have remarked on the novel's linguistic register of rectitude, few have focused on what it might mean to analyze The Secret Garden through the prism of shame. I attempt to develop such a reading here, exploring shame's textual and historical…
Can a disability studies-medical sociology rapprochement help re-value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation
This paper draws attention to the health-related work that disabled people do when engaging with rehabilitation services. Medical sociology has a rich history of looking at the 'illness work' that patients do, while disability studies scholars have explored the cultural value placed upon paid work and the effects on social status of being unable to work. Yet, a longstanding froideur between these two disciplines, which have fundamentally opposed …
The Fantasy of Maternal Autonomy and the Disabled Mother
What does it mean to choose to become a mother who cannot parent independently? What is it like to grapple with motherhood when one has a disability, in a culture which increasingly valorises maternal autonomy and choice? In this brief essay, I want to emphasise some of the ways in which maternal scholarship has helped me to navigate and make sense of my lived experience of disabled motherhood
Rehabilitation as a Disability Equality Issue
Rehabilitation is a controversial subject in disability studies, often discussed in terms of oppression, normalisation, and unwanted intrusion. While there may be good reasons for positioning rehabilitation in this way, this has also meant that, as a lived experience, it is under-researched and neglected in disabilities literature, as we show by surveying leading disability studies journals. With some notable exceptions, rehabilitation research h…
Rehabilitation
This new book in the ‘Rehabilitation Science in Practice’ series from CRC Press makes a significant and valuable contribution to the social studies of rehabilitation, by bringing concepts and appro
Bodies and Voices
[No abstract]
Can a disability studies-medical sociology rapprochement help re-value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation
This paper draws attention to the health-related work that disabled people do when engaging with rehabilitation services. Medical sociology has a rich history of looking at the 'illness work' that patients do, while disability studies scholars have explored the cultural value placed upon paid work and the effects on social status of being unable to work. Yet, a longstanding froideur between these two disciplines, which have fundamentally opposed …
Rehabilitation as a Disability Equality Issue
Rehabilitation is a controversial subject in disability studies, often discussed in terms of oppression, normalisation, and unwanted intrusion. While there may be good reasons for positioning rehabilitation in this way, this has also meant that, as a lived experience, it is under-researched and neglected in disabilities literature, as we show by surveying leading disability studies journals. With some notable exceptions, rehabilitation research h…
Bodies and Voices
[No abstract]
Rehabilitation
This new book in the ‘Rehabilitation Science in Practice’ series from CRC Press makes a significant and valuable contribution to the social studies of rehabilitation, by bringing concepts and appro
Bodies and Voices
[No abstract]
Rehabilitation
This new book in the ‘Rehabilitation Science in Practice’ series from CRC Press makes a significant and valuable contribution to the social studies of rehabilitation, by bringing concepts and appro
Rehabilitation as a Disability Equality Issue
Rehabilitation is a controversial subject in disability studies, often discussed in terms of oppression, normalisation, and unwanted intrusion. While there may be good reasons for positioning rehabilitation in this way, this has also meant that, as a lived experience, it is under-researched and neglected in disabilities literature, as we show by surveying leading disability studies journals. With some notable exceptions, rehabilitation research h…
The Fantasy of Maternal Autonomy and the Disabled Mother
What does it mean to choose to become a mother who cannot parent independently? What is it like to grapple with motherhood when one has a disability, in a culture which increasingly valorises maternal autonomy and choice? In this brief essay, I want to emphasise some of the ways in which maternal scholarship has helped me to navigate and make sense of my lived experience of disabled motherhood
Can a disability studies-medical sociology rapprochement help re-value the work disabled people do within their rehabilitation
This paper draws attention to the health-related work that disabled people do when engaging with rehabilitation services. Medical sociology has a rich history of looking at the 'illness work' that patients do, while disability studies scholars have explored the cultural value placed upon paid work and the effects on social status of being unable to work. Yet, a longstanding froideur between these two disciplines, which have fundamentally opposed …
Shame, Enchantment, and the "There-ness" of Disability in The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been a repugnant object for contemporary scholars of disability studies because of the equivalence it draws between able embodiment and morality. While scholars have remarked on the novel's linguistic register of rectitude, few have focused on what it might mean to analyze The Secret Garden through the prism of shame. I attempt to develop such a reading here, exploring shame's textual and historical…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Disability studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Rehabilitation (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)