The Disability Studies Reader/
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TextPublication details: New York: Routledge, 2013ISBN: 9780203077887Subject(s): Social Sciences - Sociology | Social PolicyOnline resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Chapter 1|14 pages
Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 2|17 pages
Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
Chapter 3|8 pages
“Heaven’s Special Child”: The Making of Poster Children
Chapter 4|16 pages
Disabling Attitudes: U.S. Disability Law and the ADA Amendments Act
PART II: THE POLITICS OF DISABILITY
Chapter 5|13 pages
Disabling Postcolonialism: Global Disability Cultures and Democratic Criticism
Chapter 6|13 pages
Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World?
Chapter 7|13 pages
Disability Rights and Selective Abortion
Chapter 8|15 pages
Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics
Chapter 9|17 pages
A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism
Chapter 10|12 pages
“The Institution Yet to Come”: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens
PART III: STIGMA AND ILLNESS
Chapter 11|14 pages
Stigma: An Enigma Demystified
Chapter 12|13 pages
Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities
PART IV: THEORIZING DISABILITY
Chapter 13|8 pages
The Cost of Getting Better: Ability and Debility
Chapter 14|17 pages
Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
Chapter 15|12 pages
Aesthetic Nervousness
Chapter 16|8 pages
The Social Model of Disability
Chapter 17|14 pages
Narrative Prosthesis
Chapter 18|10 pages
The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction
Chapter 19|15 pages
Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: “Deaf-Gain” and the Future of Human Diversity
PART V: IDENTITIES AND INTERSECTIONALITIES
Chapter 20|15 pages
The End of Identity Politics: On Disability as an Unstable Category
Chapter 21|20 pages
Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment—For Identity Politics in a New Register
Chapter 22|10 pages
Defining Mental Disability
Chapter 23|8 pages
Disability and Blackness
Chapter 24|17 pages
My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out
Chapter 25|21 pages
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory
Chapter 26|15 pages
Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality
Chapter 27|10 pages
Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence
PART VI: DISABILITY AND CULTURE
Chapter 28|17 pages
Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body
Chapter 29|13 pages
Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability
Chapter 30|21 pages
“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
Chapter 31|15 pages
The Enfreakment of Photography
Chapter 32|9 pages
Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account
Chapter 33|4 pages
Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation
Chapter 34|25 pages
Autism as Culture
Chapter 35|9 pages
Disability, Design, and Branding: Rethinking Disability for the 21st Century
PART VII: FICTION, MEMOIR, AND POETRY
Chapter 36|10 pages
Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart
Chapter 37|13 pages
Unspeakable Conversations
Chapter 38|6 pages
Helen and Frida
Chapter 39|2 pages
“I Am Not One of The” and “Cripple Lullaby”
Chapter 40|2 pages
“Beauty and Variations”
Chapter 41|7 pages
Selections from Planet of the Blind
Chapter 42|16 pages
Selected Poems
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