The disability studies reader
By: edited by Lennard J. Davis
Contributors: Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780415953344; 9780415953337
Subjects: People with disabilities; Sociology of disability; Disability studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis; title: Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / M. Lynn Rose; title: "A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton; title: The other arms race / David Serlin; title: (Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the Human Genome Project / James C. Wilson; title: Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane; title: Abortion and disability : who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard; title: Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton; title: Universal design : the work of disability in an age of globalization / Michael Davidson; title: Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman; title: Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman; title: AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag; title: Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton; title: Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body / Tobin Siebers; title: On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment / Shelley Tremain; title: The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare; title: Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder; title: The dimension of disability oppression : an overview / James I. Charleton; title: The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis; title: Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell; title: Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; title: Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal / Chris Bell; title: "When Black women start going on Prozac" : the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow weep for me / Anna Mollow; title: Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer; title: The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith; title: Interlude 1 : On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggeman; title: Deaf people : a different center / Carol Padden and Tom Humphries; title: A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis; title: Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman; title: The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey; title: Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff; title: Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Georgina Kleege; title: Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser; title: Helen and Frida / Anne Finger; title: Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade; title: Poems/ Kenny Fries; title: Selections from The cry of the gull / Emmanuelle Laborit