Calli Micale
Biographic Data
| ID | 4689102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Calli Micale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Calli |
| FAMILY NAME | Micale |
| SIGNATURE | MICALE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1604-2144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Rhetoric of Disability in Reproductive Politics
Disability studies and disabled activists critique involuntary sterilization and prenatal screening as products of the idea that disabled people lack worth. In recent history, proponents of legislation that restricts abortion access argue the reverse. They defend disabled personhood by showing how those with intellectual disabilities contribute to society. Despite competing ends, each claim reinforces associations between human value and a capaci…
Signs of Grace
This archival analysis of 19th-century Protestant pro-slavery rhetoric shows that positive evaluations of disability concealed debilitation practices on plantations. The examination complicates a narrative in disability histories that associates Christian teaching with only a negative evaluation of disability as indexing a state of sin. Instead, the article explains how positive and negative evaluations of intellectual deficiency coalesced within…
“Strange” But Not Queer
This essay examines Brian Brock’s use of imagery and symbols in Wondrously Wounded to explain reception of the Spirit’s gifts. By recovering the symbol of wonder, Brock intervenes in discussions among disability theologians about participation in Christ’s body. Above all, he avoids normative discursive forms that work to subordinate those marked disabled. Recent directions in queer theology, however, show that images of wounding and assault reins…
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“Strange” But Not Queer
This essay examines Brian Brock’s use of imagery and symbols in Wondrously Wounded to explain reception of the Spirit’s gifts. By recovering the symbol of wonder, Brock intervenes in discussions among disability theologians about participation in Christ’s body. Above all, he avoids normative discursive forms that work to subordinate those marked disabled. Recent directions in queer theology, however, show that images of wounding and assault reins…
Signs of Grace
This archival analysis of 19th-century Protestant pro-slavery rhetoric shows that positive evaluations of disability concealed debilitation practices on plantations. The examination complicates a narrative in disability histories that associates Christian teaching with only a negative evaluation of disability as indexing a state of sin. Instead, the article explains how positive and negative evaluations of intellectual deficiency coalesced within…
The Rhetoric of Disability in Reproductive Politics
Disability studies and disabled activists critique involuntary sterilization and prenatal screening as products of the idea that disabled people lack worth. In recent history, proponents of legislation that restricts abortion access argue the reverse. They defend disabled personhood by showing how those with intellectual disabilities contribute to society. Despite competing ends, each claim reinforces associations between human value and a capaci…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Rhetoric (2 works) · Theology (2 works)