| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 578 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface to the fourth edition -- Introduction: disability, normality, and power / Lennard J. Davis -- Historical perspectives -- Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton -- "Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul Longmore -- Disabling attitudes : U.S. disability law and the ADA amendments act / Elizabeth F. 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 Bérubé -- 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 Coleman Brown -- Unhealthy disabled: treating chronic illnesses as disabilities / Susan Wendell -- Theorizing disability -- The cost of getting better: ability and debility / Jasbir K. Puar -- Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- 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. Bauman 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 -- Disability and blackness / Josh Lukin -- My body, my closet: invisible disability and the limits of coming out / Ellen Samuels -- Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Unspeakable offenses: untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality / Nirmala Erevelles and Andrea Minear -- Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer -- Disability and culture -- Cripping heterosexuality, queering able-bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the contested masculine body / Cynthia Barounis -- Sculpting body ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the public display of disability / Ann Millett-Gallant -- "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 -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Blindness and visual culture: an eyewitness account / Georgina Kleege -- Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser -- Autism as culture / Joseph N. Straus -- Disability, design, and branding: rethinking disability for the 21st century / Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson -- Fiction, memoir, and poetry -- Stones in my pocket, stones in my heart / Eli Clare -- Unspeakable conversations / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- "I am not one of the" and "Cripple lullaby" / Cheryl Marie Wade -- "Beauty and variations" / Kenny Fries -- Selections from Planet of the Blind / Steve Kuusisto -- Selected poems / Jim Ferris. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities.
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Sociology of disability.
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Disability studies.
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Disability studies. (OCoLC)fst00894656
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People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
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Sociology of disability. (OCoLC)fst01123936
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Disabled Persons.
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| ISBN |
9780415630528 (hardback) |
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0415630525 (hardback) |
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9780415630511 (paperback) |
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0415630517 (paperback) |
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9780203077887 (ebook) |
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0203077881 (ebook) |
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