The Disability Studies Reader 5th Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781138930230
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138930230
• Author: Lennard J. Davis (Editor)

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’stradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

Table contents:

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 Diversity

18 Aesthetic Blindness: Symbolism, Realism, and Reality

19 Life with Dead Metaphors: Impairment Rhetoric in Social Justice Praxis

20 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X

21 Centering Justice on Dependency and Recovering Freedom

Part V: Identities and Intersectionalities

22 Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register

23 Defining Mental Disability

24 My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out

25 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory

26 Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality

27 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence

28 Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?

29 Token of Approval

Part VI: Disability and Culture

30 Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability

31 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account

32 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation

33 Why Disability Identity Matters: From Dramaturgy to Casting in John Belluso’s Pyretown

34 The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men

Part VII: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry

35 Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart

36 Unspeakable Conversations

37 “I Am Not One of The” and “Cripple Lullaby”

38 Selections from Planet of the Blind

39 “The Magic Wand”

40 “Biohack Manifesto”