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The Disability Studies Readercollects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective.

Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Preface to the Second Edition(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part I Historical Perspectives
• 1 Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century(p. 3)
• 2 Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece(p. 17)
• 3 "A Silent Exile on This Earth": The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century(p. 33)
• 4 The Other Arms Race(p. 49)
• 5 (Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality, and the Human Genome Project(p. 67)
• Part II The Politics of Disability
• 6 Construction of Deafness(p. 79)
• 7 Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World?(p. 93)
• 8 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion(p. 105)
• 9 Universal Design: The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization(p. 117)
• Part III Stigma and Illness
• 10 Selections from Stigma(p. 131)
• 11 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified(p. 141)
• 12 AIDS and Its Metaphors(p. 153)
• Part IV Theorizing Disability
• 13 Reassigning Meaning(p. 161)
• 14 Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body(p. 173)
• 15 On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of Impairment(p. 185)
• 16 The Social Model of Disability(p. 197)
• 17 Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor(p. 205)
• 18 The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview(p. 217)
• Part V The Question of Identity
• 19 The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category(p. 231)
• 20 Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability(p. 243)
• 21 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory(p. 257)
• 22 Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal(p. 275)
• 23 "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(p. 283)
• 24 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence(p. 301)
• 25 The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney(p. 309)
• 26 Interlude 1: On (Almost) Passing(p. 321)
• 27 Deaf People: A Different Center(p. 331)
• 28 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism(p. 339)
• Part VI Disability and Culture
• 29 Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language and Literary Theory(p. 355)
• 30 The Enfreakment of Photography(p. 367)
• 31 Blindness and Art(p. 379)
• 32 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account(p. 391)
• 33 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation(p. 399)
• Part VII Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
• 34 Helen and Frida(p. 405)
• 35 Poems(p. 411)
• 36 Poems(p. 413)
• 37 Selections from The Cry of the Gull(p. 417)
• Contributors(p. 435)
• Index(p. 441)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Education at the University of Illionis at Chicago. His is author of, among other books, Enforcing Normalcy and Bending Over Backwards.