Amanda Apgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6644205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Apgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Apgar |
| SIGNATURE | APGAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women’s and Gender Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Saving Delaney … by white privilege
Saving Delaney is one of a number of "special needs" parent memoirs published in the United States since 2000 and is the only memoir about raising a disabled child in the United States written by lesbian parents. Like many representations of disability, "special needs" parent memoirs use a problematic narrative in which the presumed negative effects of disability are individually overcome before life lived happily ever after. Also like popular an…
Becoming Narratives
Becoming Narratives:The Entanglement of Ability, Gender, Sexuality, and Time in 'Special Needs' Memoirs"1 Amanda Apgar (bio) Jeremy and the Not-Queer Hat On the cover of Beth Kephart's memoir A Slant of Sun is a black-and-white photograph of a tiny child sitting on a wooden-slat porch. The child, presumably Kephart's son Jeremy, looks out towards an empty suburban street, back turned to the camera. There is a stuffed animal to his left, and on hi…
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Becoming Narratives
Becoming Narratives:The Entanglement of Ability, Gender, Sexuality, and Time in 'Special Needs' Memoirs"1 Amanda Apgar (bio) Jeremy and the Not-Queer Hat On the cover of Beth Kephart's memoir A Slant of Sun is a black-and-white photograph of a tiny child sitting on a wooden-slat porch. The child, presumably Kephart's son Jeremy, looks out towards an empty suburban street, back turned to the camera. There is a stuffed animal to his left, and on hi…
Saving Delaney … by white privilege
Saving Delaney is one of a number of "special needs" parent memoirs published in the United States since 2000 and is the only memoir about raising a disabled child in the United States written by lesbian parents. Like many representations of disability, "special needs" parent memoirs use a problematic narrative in which the presumed negative effects of disability are individually overcome before life lived happily ever after. Also like popular an…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Memoir (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ableism (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)