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The disability studies reader /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
People with disabilities.
Sociology of disability.
Disability studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the fourth edition
  • Historical perspectives
  • Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis
  • Disability and the justification of inequality in american history / Douglas Baynton
  • "Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul Longmore
  • Disabling attitudes : u.s. disability law and the ada amendments act / Elizabeth 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 Berube
  • 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 M. Coleman-Brown
  • Unhealthy disabled / Susan Wendell
  • Theorizing disability
  • "Reassigning meaning" / Simi Linton
  • Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye
  • 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. Baumann 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.