By Jordynn Jack
In Autism and Gender: From fridge moms to machine Geeks, Jack specializes in the methods gender affects renowned dialogue and realizing of autism's reasons and results. She identifies gendered theories just like the “refrigerator mom” idea, for instance, which blames emotionally far away moms for autism, and the “extreme male mind” conception, which hyperlinks autism to the modes of systematic pondering present in male laptop geeks. Jack's research finds how humans hire such hugely gendered theories to craft rhetorical narratives round inventory characters--fix-it dads, heroic mom warriors rescuing little ones from autism--that recommend for ends past the tale itself whereas additionally permitting the storyteller to realize authority, comprehend the disease, and participate in debates.
Autism and Gender unearths the methods we construct narratives round debatable themes whereas supplying new insights into the methods rhetorical inquiry can and does give a contribution to conversations approximately gender and disability.
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Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks by Jordynn Jack