Bibliograph

The disability studies reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis

Type

Label

The disability studies reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The disability studies reader

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

65187249

Responsibility statement

edited by Lennard J. Davis

Table Of Contents

Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / M. Lynn Rose -- "A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- The other arms race / David Serlin -- (Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the Human Genome Project / James C. Wilson -- Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane -- Abortion and disability : who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard -- Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton -- Universal design : the work of disability in an age of globalization / Michael Davidson -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton -- Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body / Tobin Siebers -- On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment / Shelley Tremain -- The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare -- Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder -- The dimension of disability oppression : an overview / James I. Charleton -- The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal / Chris Bell -- "When Black women start going on Prozac" : the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow weep for me / Anna Mollow -- Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer -- The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith -- Interlude 1 : On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggeman -- Deaf people : a different center / Carol Padden and Tom Humphries -- A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis -- Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Georgina Kleege -- Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Poems/ Kenny Fries -- Selections from The cry of the gull / Emmanuelle Laborit

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