The Disability Studies Reader/ - New York: Routledge, 2013.

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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