Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of ‘Disability’ in the Academy

Abstract

The cultural presence of autism has grown vastly over the past few decades, with the impairment becoming the subject of films (e.g. Rain Man, 1998; Snow Cake, 2006), novels (e.g. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003), autobiographies (e.g. Grandin,...