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The disability studies reader / Lennard J. Davis.

Van Pelt Library HV1568 .D5696 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
People with disabilities.
Sociology of disability.
Disability studies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 578 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Contents:
Preface to the fourth edition
Historical perspectives
Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis
Disability and the justification of inequality in american history / Douglas Baynton
"Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul Longmore
Disabling attitudes : u.s. disability law and the ada amendments act / Elizabeth Emens
The politics of disability
Disabling postcolonialism : global disability cultures and democratic criticism / Clare Barker and Stuart Murray
Abortion and disability : who should and should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard
"Disability rights and selective abortion" / Marsha Saxton
Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Berube
A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis
The institution yet to come : analyzing incarceration through a disability lens / Liat Ben-Moshe
Stigma and illness
Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman-Brown
Unhealthy disabled / Susan Wendell
Theorizing disability
"Reassigning meaning" / Simi Linton
Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye
Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson
The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare
Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
The unexceptional schizophrenic : a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast
Deaf studies in the 21st century : deaf-gain and the future of the human / H-Dirksen L. Baumann and Joseph J. Murray
Identities and intersectionalities
The end of identity politics : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis
Disability and the theory of complex embodiment : for identity politics in a new register / Tobin Siebers
Defining mental disability / Margaret Price.
ISBN:
9780415630528
0415630525
9780415630511
0415630517
9780203077887
0203077881
OCLC:
796355075
Publisher Number:
99952164919

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