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Complicating a rudimentary list of characteristics: Communicating disability with down syndrome dolls
M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.15(5)
2012
Abstract
Apparently some people upon coming across [Down Syndrome dolls] were offended. […] Still, it’s curious, and telling, what gives offense. Was it the shock of seeing a doll not modeled on the normative form that caused such offense? Or the assumption that any representation of Down Syndrome must naturally intend ridicule? Either way, it would seem that we might benefit from an examination of such reactions—especially as they relate to instances of the idealisation of the human form that dolls […] represent. (Faulkner)
Details
- Title
- Complicating a rudimentary list of characteristics: Communicating disability with down syndrome dolls
- Authors/Creators
- K. Ellis (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.15(5)
- Publisher
- M/C - Media and Culture
- Identifiers
- 991005545540907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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