The disability studies reader

The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader's tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

Introduction: disability, normality, and power / Lennard J. Davis -- Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton -- "Heaven's special child": the making of poster children / Paul K. Longmore -- Disabled upon arrival: the rhetorical construction of disability and race at Ellis Island / Jay Dolmage -- 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 -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman-Brown -- Unhealthy disabled: treating chronic illnesses as disabilities / Susan Wendell -- What's so "critical" about critical disability studies? / Helen Meekosha and Russell Shuttleworth -- The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare -- Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder -- Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson -- The unexceptional schizophrenic: a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast -- Deaf studies in the 21st century: "D…