Books written by James W. Trent

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  Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States

  James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of "feeble minds.

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  The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform

  Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform James W. Trent ... See also Secret Six Smith, John Brown, 67–68, 113–15 Spurzheim, Johann, 86–88, 92 Stanton, Edwin M., 225, 227 Stearns, George L., 166, 184, 199, ...

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  Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States

  James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years.

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  Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

  Davenport, Charles B., Harry H. Laughlin, David Weeks, E. R. Johnstone, and Henry H. Goddard. 1911. The Study of Human Heredity: Methods of Collecting, Charting, and Analyzing Data [Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 2].

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  Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

  The next day Judge Pinanski sentenced Noxon to die in the state's electric chair, the mandatory penalty. In November he denied the defense's motion for a new trial, and in May 1945 the Death on a Silver Platter 225.

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  Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

  Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of the complex, and at times competing, interactions between masculinity and disability.

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  Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

  'Inventing the Feeble Mind' explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently ...

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  Catholics in College: Religious Commitment and the Intellectual Life

  Prendendo in esame i dati estrapolati da studi comparativi, l'Autore sonda quali siano, e come cambino durante il corso degli studi universitari, le attitudini emotive, intellettuali e religiose degli studenti...

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  Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

  ... fanatics, and fools, then, conforms to inveterate scripts of which historians are already acutely aware. We may not even be surprised that subsequent coverage eagerly followed in this vein, referring to the men not just as insane, fools ...