The Disabled Gaze: Multi-Sensory Perspectives on Art, Bodies, and Objects (Bloomsbury Studies in Disability, Art and Design)

How does being disabled change the ways people experience the world and the things they create?This agenda-setting collection brings material, visual, artistic, and literary perspectives together to examine how disabled people have shaped representations of themselves in images, objects, and literature. Engaging with themes of cripping, resistance, and rethinking, the chapters unpack the creative, generative, and transformative approaches by which disabled people have aimed to capture power by controlling how they are perceived.Collectively the volume introduces the “disabled gaze”-an autonomous claiming of identity that disabled people use through making-as a guard against and redressing of ableism and stigma.The essays present a range of highly-illustrated case studies that center disabled people’s broader material worlds and resituate artefacts of all sorts, not just specialized design objects, as incubators for disability justice.These range from 19th-century ceramics depicting the