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The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis.

Contributor(s): Davis, Lennard J, 1949-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1997Description: x, 454 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415914701 ; 041591471X .Subject(s): People with disabilities | Sociology of disability | Disability studiesDDC classification: 362.4
Contents:
I. Historical perspectives -- II. Politics of disability -- III. Stigma and illness -- IV. Gender and disability -- V. Disability and education -- VI. Disability and culture -- VII. Fiction and poetry.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Disability Studies Readercollects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective.

Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell.

Bibliography: (pages 429-444) and index.

I. Historical perspectives -- II. Politics of disability -- III. Stigma and illness -- IV. Gender and disability -- V. Disability and education -- VI. Disability and culture -- VII. Fiction and poetry.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • I Historical Perspectives
  • 1 Constructing Normalcy
  • 2 Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece
  • 3 A Silent Exile on this Earth
  • 4 The Other Arms Race
  • 5 (Re)Writing The Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality and the Human Genome Project
  • II Politics of Disability
  • 6 Constructions of Deafness
  • 7 Abortion and Disability: How Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World?
  • 8 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion
  • 9 Universal Design: The Work of Disability in An Age of Globalization
  • III Stigma and Illness
  • 10 Selections from Stigma
  • 11 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified
  • 12 AIDS and Its Metaphors
  • IV Theorizing Disability
  • 13 Reassigning Meaning
  • 14 Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body
  • 15 On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of Impairment
  • 16 The Social Model of Disability
  • 17 Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor
  • 18 The Dimension of Disability Oppression: An Overview
  • V. The Question of Identity
  • 19 The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category
  • 20 Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability
  • 21 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory
  • 22 Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal
  • 23 When Black Women Start Going on Prozac' The Politics of Race, Gender, and Emotional Distress
  • 24 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer Disabled Existence
  • 25 The Vulnerable Articulate
  • 26 On Almost Passing
  • 27 Deafness: A Different Center
  • 28 A Mad Fight: A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism
  • VI Disability and Culture
  • 29 Towards a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body
  • 30 The Enfreakment of Photography
  • 31 Blindness and Art
  • 32 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account
  • 33 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation
  • VII Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
  • 34 Helen and Frida
  • 35 Poems, Cheryl
  • 36 Beauty and Variations
  • 37 The Cry of the Gull
  • 38 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Education at the University of Illionis at Chicago. His is author of, among other books, Enforcing Normalcy and Bending Over Backwards.