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The Disability Studies Reader Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

The Disability Studies Reader By Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)


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The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

The Disability Studies Reader is the most comprehensive introduction to in disability studies. Now in its third edition, it contains a wide range of seminal, cutting-edge and classic articles in the field. The collection covers cultural studies, identity politics, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, the visual arts, gender and race studies, as well as memoir, poetry, fiction, and prose non-fiction.

The Disability Studies Reader Reviews

The Disability Studies Reader is a classic of invention, intervention, and interdiciplinarity. Contesting at every juncture the arbitrariness of signs such as normal, natural, healthy, and able bodied, the collection rewrites epistemologies of pedagogy and research long considered standard. The work's judgments are rejuvenating, its observations insightful, its creativity a gift.-Houston Baker, English, Vanderbilt University

Over the past 15 years, disability studies have grown not only along with, but because of, Lennard Davis's Disability Studies Reader. This anthology provides a flexible, advanced overview of the state of scholarship on disability in the humanities and reaffirms the DSR's position as the must have text for those venturing into disability studies at any level.-Robert A. Wilson, Philosophy, University of Alberta

Professor Davis has compiled an outstanding selection of essays from leading American and international disability scholars and activists. The book is a comprehensive survey of disability culture, politics, identity, history, and fiction that can both enlighten the educated student of disability studies and serve as an introduction to the disability experience.-Paul S. Miller, Law, University of Washington

About Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

Lennard J. Davis is Professor of Disability and Human Development, English, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of, among other works, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body; Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions; My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness; and Obsession: A History.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Historical Perspectives 1. Lennard Davis, Constructing Normalcy 2. Colin Barnes, A Brief History of Discrimination and Disabled People 3. Douglas Baynton, 'A Silent Exile on This Earth': The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century 4. James C. Wilson, Disability and the Human Genome 5. Edward Wheatley, Medieval Constructions of Blindness in France and England Part 2: The Politics of Disability 6. Harlan Lane , Construction of Deafness 7. Mark Sherry, (Post)colonising Disability 8. Ruth Hubbard, Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World? 9. Marsha Saxton, Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 10. Michael Davidson, Universal Design: The work of Disability in an Age of Globalization 11. James Charlton, The Dimensions of Disability Oppression 12. Bradley Lewis, A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism Part 3: Stigma and Illness 13. Lerita M. Coleman Brown, Stigma: An Enigma Demystified 14. Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors 15. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Beholding 16. Brenda Brueggemann, On (Almost) Passing Part 4: Theorizing Disability 17. Simi Linton, Reassigning Meaning 18. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, Enabling Kinship 19. Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness 20. Tom Shakespeare, The Social Model of Disability 21. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis 22. Catherine Prendergast, The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction Part 5: Identities and Intersectionalities 23. Lennard Davis, The End of Identity Politics: On Disability as an Unstable Category 24. Tobin Siebers, Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment-For Identity Politics in a New Register 25. Susan Wendell, Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability 26. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 27. Chris Bell, Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies? 28. Robert McRuer, Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 29. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, Deaf People: A Different Center 30. R. A. R. Edwards, Hearing Aids Are Not Deaf: A Historical Perspective on Technology in the Deaf World 31. Eunjung Kim, Minority Politics in Korea: Disability, Interaciality, and Gender 32. Daniel Docherty, Richard Hughes, Patricia Phillips, David Corbett, Brendan Regan, Andrew Barber, Michael Adams, Kathy Boxall, Ian Kaplan, Shayma Izzidien, This Is What We Think Part 6: Disability and Culture 33. Cynthia Barounis, Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body 34. , The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney 35. Ann Millett-Gallant, Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability 36. Anna Mollow, When Black Women Start Going on Prozac....' The Poltics of Race, Gender, and Emotional Distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me 37. David Hevey, The Enfreakment of Photography 38. , Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account 39. G. Thomas Couser, Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation 40. Joseph N. Straus, Autism as Culture Part 7: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry 41. Eli Clare, Stones in my Pockets, Stones in my Heart 42. Harriet McBryde Johnson, Unspeakable Conversations 43. Anne Finger, Helen and Friday 44. Cheryl Marie Wade, 'I Am Not One of the' and `Cripple Lullaby' 45. Kenny Fries, Beauty and Variations 46. Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, Selections from Cripple Poetics 47. Emanuelle Laborit, Selections from The Cry of the Gull 48. Steve Kuusisto, Selections from Planet of the Blind

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The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
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