{"product_id":"convenient-discrimination","title":"Convenient Discrimination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhile social oppression is typically framed in terms of prejudice and hate, D. Travers Scott contends that discrimination against marginalized groups is often rooted in a shockingly banal perspective: they simply get in the way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing primarily on disabled persons and queer persons in addition to other marginalized demographics including non-Christians and the aged, this book draws on histories and discourses of industrialization, technology, and modernist ideals of efficiency to propose a theory of \u003ci\u003ediscriminatory convenience\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConvenient Discrimination\u003c\/i\u003e places representations of queerness and disability in media texts ranging from Appalachian folk songs to \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) within the context of both historic and contemporary discussions surrounding health, media, technology, and social movements to form a variety of compelling case studies. These analyses are further bolstered by Scott’s own autoethnographic accounts as a queer, formerly disabled activist-scholar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book skillfully combines media studies and archival research to articulate a nuanced cultural politics of convenient discrimination, ultimately demonstrating the utility of \u003ci\u003einconvenience\u003c\/i\u003e as an analytic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694621765976,"sku":"9781666960198","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781666960198.jpg?v=1778320837","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/convenient-discrimination","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}