The disability studies reader

by Davis, Lennard J.

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Title Statements

Full title :The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

Notes

Previous edition: 2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 554 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138930223, 1138930229, 9781138930230, 1138930237
oclc:ocn941439021
LC Classification:HV1568
Dewey Decimal:362.4

1. Introduction: disability, normality, and power / Lennard J. Davis. -- Part I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2. Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton. -- 3. "Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul K. Longmore. -- 4. Disabled upon arrival : the rhetorical construction of disability and race at Ellis Island / Jay Dolmage. -- Part II: THE POLITICS OF DISABILITY -- 5. Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton. -- 6. Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Be Rube. -- 7. A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis. -- 8. "The institution yet to come" : analyzing incarceration through a disability lens / Liat Ben-Moshe. -- Part III: STIGMA AND ILLNESS -- 9. Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman. -- 10. Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman-Brown. -- 11. Unhealthy disabled : treating chronic illnesses as disabilities / Susan Wendell. -- Part IV: THEORIZING DISABILITY -- 12. What's so "critical" about critical disability studies? / Helen Meekosha and Russell Shuttleworth. -- 13. The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare. -- 14. Narrative prosthe…

Subjects

Disability Studies Études sur le handicap Handicap -- Aspect sociologique handicapped People with Disabilities Personnes handicapées physically handicapped Sociology of disability