Wolf Girls and Mechanical Boys: Whiteness and Assimilation in Bruno Bettelheim’s Narratives of Autism

In March of 1959, public intellectual, principal of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago, and Jewish concentration camp survivor, Bruno Bettelheim published two articles that presented seemingly disparate narratives of autism. One of these narratives, that of the mechani...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Cady Maher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2023-12-01
Series:Disability Studies Quarterly
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Online Access:https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9648