The Disability Studies Reader

The Disability Studies Reader

by Davis, Lennard J.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The Disability Studies Reader.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2017
  • Edition:5th ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
  • Place of Publication:Florence
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (571 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317397861, 131739786X
  • oclc:on1041709750
  • LC Classification:HV1568.D385 2017
  • Dewey Decimal:362.4

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- 1 Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power -- Part I: Historical Perspectives -- 2 Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History -- 3 ''Heaven's Special Child'': The Making of Poster Children -- 4 Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island -- Part II: The Politics of Disability -- 5 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion -- 6 Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics -- 7 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism -- 8 ''The Institution Yet to Come'': Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens -- Part III: Stigma and Illness -- 9 Selections from Stigma -- 10 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified -- 11 Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities -- Part IV: Theorizing Disability -- 12 What's So ''Critical'' about Critical Disability Studies? -- 13 The Social Model of Disability -- 14 Narrative Prosthesis -- 15 Aesthetic Nervousness -- 16 The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction -- 17 Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: ''Deaf-Gain'' and the Future of Human…

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Subjects

handicapped People with Disabilities Personnes handicapées physically handicapped

Writers

Davis, Lennard J.

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