The Disability Studies Reader
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The Disability Studies Reader is the most comprehensive introduction to in disability studies. Now in its third edition, it contains a wide range of seminal, cutting-edge and classic articles in the field. The collection covers cultural studies, identity politics, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, the visual arts, gender and race studies, as well as memoir, poetry, fiction, and prose non-fiction.
1Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century32Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece173"A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century334The other arms race495(Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the human genome project676Construction of deafness797Abortion and disability : who should and who should not inhabit the world?938Disability rights and selective abortion1059Universal design : the work of disability in an age of globalization11710Selections from Stigma13111Stigma : an enigma demystified14112AIDS and its metaphors15313Reassigning meaning16114Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body17315On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment18516The social model of disability19717Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor20518The dimensions of disability oppression : an overview21719The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category23120Toward a feminist theory of disability24321Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory25722Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal27523"When black women start going on prozac ..." : the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow weep for me28324Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence30125The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney30926Interlude 1 : on (almost) passing32127Deaf people : a different center33128A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism33929Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory35530The enfreakment of photography36731Blindness and art37932Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account39133Disability, life narrative, and representation39934Helen and Frida40535Poems41136Poems41337Selections from The cry of the gull417
