Challenging and Reinforcing the Ability/Disability System through Advocacy for Disabled Dogs

This paper illuminates how volunteers and animal rescuers who assist dogs from a high-intake public shelter in the Los Angeles metropolitan area simultaneously resist the devaluation of the lives of disabled dogs while sensationalizing and fetishizing disability through their discursive and represen...

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Main Author: Katja M. Guenther
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2023-06-01
Series:Disability Studies Quarterly
Online Access:https://library.osu.edu/ojs/index.php/dsq/article/view/7852