The disability studies reader

✍ Scribed by Davis, Lennard J(Editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 571
• Edition: 5th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fifth edition ofThe Disability Studies Readeraddresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues theReader'stradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Fifth Edition......Page 14
1 Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power......Page 18
Part I: Historical Perspectives......Page 32
2 Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History......Page 34
3 ‘‘Heaven’s Special Child’’: The Making of Poster Children......Page 52
4 Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island......Page 60
Part II: The Politics of Disability......Page 88
5 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion......Page 90
6 Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics......Page 104
7 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism......Page 119
8 ‘‘The Institution Yet to Come’’: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens......Page 136
Part III: Stigma and Illness......Page 148
9 Selections from Stigma......Page 150
10 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified......Page 162
11 Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities......Page 177
Part IV: Theorizing Disability......Page 190
12 What’s So ‘‘Critical’’ about Critical Disability Studies?......Page 192
13 The Social Model of Disability......Page 212
14 Narrative Prosthesis......Page 221
15 Aesthetic Nervousness......Page 236
16 The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction......Page 249
17 Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: ‘‘Deaf-Gain’’ and the Future of Human Diversity......Page 259
18 Aesthetic Blindness: Symbolism, Realism, and Reality......Page 273
19 Life with Dead Metaphors: Impairment Rhetoric in Social Justice Praxis......Page 286
20 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X......Page 299
21 Centering Justice on Dependency and Recovering Freedom......Page 322
Part V: Identities and Intersectionalities......Page 328
22 Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register......Page 330
23 Defining Mental Disability......Page 350
24 My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out......Page 360
25 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory......Page 377
26 Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality......Page 398
27 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence......Page 413
28 Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?......Page 423
29 Token of Approval......Page 433
Part VI: Disability and Culture......Page 442
30 Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability......Page 444
31 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account......Page 457
32 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation......Page 467
33 Why Disability Identity Matters: From Dramaturgy to Casting in John Belluso’s Pyretown......Page 471
34 The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men......Page 487
Part VII: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry......Page 498
35 Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart......Page 500
36 Unspeakable Conversations......Page 511
37 ‘‘I am Not One of The’’ and ‘‘Cripple Lullaby’’......Page 524
38 Selections from Planet of the Blind......Page 527
39 ‘‘The Magic Wand’’......Page 534
40 ‘‘Biohack Manifesto’’......Page 536
List of Contributors......Page 539
Credit Lines......Page 545
Index......Page 548

✦ Subjects

Disability;Disability Studies;Nonfiction;Academic;Philosophy;Theory;Reference;Research;School;Social Movements;Social Justice;Sociology;Politics