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Overview
There are as many meanings and experiences of disability as there are disabled people, and this diversity ensures that the work of the field will continue to evolve. Fully revised and brought up to date, this volume addresses a wider range of geographical and cultural contexts, and many pay specific attention to the intersections between disability and race, gender, and sexuality. The growing interest and activism around the issue of neuroatypicality is also reflected in a new section on neurodivergence.
The Disability Studies Reader remains an excellent touchstone for students in disability studies courses across the disciplines, including the social sciences, English literature, and psychology.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780367536077 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 04/01/2025 |
Edition description: | 6th ed. |
Pages: | 568 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Rebecca Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University, where she teaches disability studies, transatlantic modernism, and poetics.
Alexander Luft is a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as a contributing editor to Beginning With Disability: A Primer.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Introduction xv
Historical Perspectives
Constructing Normalcy; The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century Lennard J. Davis 3
Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece M. Lynn Rose 17
"A Silent Exile on This Earth": The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century Douglas Baynton 33
The Other Arms Race David Serlin 49
(Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality, and the Human Genome Project James C. Wilson 67
The Politics of Disability
Construction of Deafness Harlan Lane 79
Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World? Ruth Hubbard 93
Disability Rights and Selective Abortion Marsha Saxton 105
Universal Design; The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization Michael Davidson 117
Stigma and Illness
Selections from Stigma Erving Goffman 131
Stigma: An Enigma Demystified Lerita M. Coleman 141
Aids and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag 153
TheorizingDisability
Reassigning Meaning Simi Linton 161
Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body Tobin Siebers 173
On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of Impairment Shelley Tremain 185
The Social Model of Disability Tom Shakespeare 197
Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor David Mitchell Sharon Snyder 205
The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview James I. Charlton 217
The Question of Identity
The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category Lennard J. Davis 231
Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability Susan Wendell 243
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 257
Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal Chris Bell 275
"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 283
Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 301
The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney Marquard Smith 309
Interlude 1: On (Almost) Passing Brenda Brueggeman 321
Deaf People: A Different Center Carol Padden Tom Humphries 331
A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism Bradley Lewis 339
Disability and Culture
Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language and Literary Theory H-Dirksen L. Bauman 355
The Enfreakment of Photography David Hevey 367
Blindness and Art Nicholas Mirzoeff 379
Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account Georgina Kleege 391
Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation G. Thomas Couser 399
Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
Helen and Frida Anne Finger 405
Poems Cheryl Marie Wade 411
Poems Kenny Fries 413
Selections from The Cry of the Gull Emmanuelle Laborit 417
Contributors 435
Index 441
What People are Saying About This
Lennard Davis’s Disability Studies Reader has been a must-use for years in my courses on disability studies and medical humanities. The newest edition provides further proof of its importance for the classroom. Yet more wide ranging and global, it provides not only solid historical essays but think-pieces about disabilities in the modern world. It is in many ways a course in a box.Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University
With the inclusion and integration of the humanities in medical education, every edition of The Disability Studies Reader has been crucial in developing curricular "interventions" that introduce students to the fluid construction of normalcy, the common representations of disability, and the ethical, moral, and political issues associated with accepted diagnostic and clinical practices. The essays on mental health/mental illness, pre-natal genetic screening, chronic illness and gender, race and depression, and cognitive disorders in this fourth edition will enable teachers like myself to offer medical students other ways of thinking, seeing and relating to their future patients. Therese Jones,. Director, Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program. University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities
With every new edition, Lennard Davis's Disability Studies Reader becomes more pertinent and more necessary. If you are wondering what disability studies is, start here.
- Tobin Siebers, Department of English, University of Michigan
As the interdisciplinary field of disability studies continues to transform our understandings of culture, history, and politics, The Disability Studies Reader remains the touchstone. The new edition pairs the indispensable essays that have founded the field with cutting-edge work in feminist, queer, critical race, and postcolonial theory. This is one of the most important volumes in cultural studies available.
- Robert McRuer, English, George Washington University
No one serious about the subject can afford to be without the latest edition of the Disability Studies Reader on their shelf. From politics to poetry, memoir to theory, poster children to posthumans, it is the one indispensable guide to the field for student and scholar alike.
- Douglas Baynton, History, University of Iowa
Since its first appearance the Disability Studies Reader has always been an indispensible volume - but with the new, fourth edition this is even more the case. The new additions here - on intersections with sexuality, technology, the law, questions of the social, and the need to understand disability in global contexts - speak to the evolving ways in which disability works in the contemporary world. It is very rare that a single text can do justice to a highly complex subject, but this book does just that. It is the essential guide for scholars and students.
- Stuart Murray, Contemporary Literatures and Film Director, Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities
"This is an indispensable collection, bringing together foundational arguments in disability studies and provocative new work from emerging young scholars in the field. If you're curious as to why (and how) disability studies has stimulated so much debate in the humanities, The Disability Studies Reader is a great place to start finding out."
Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Penn State University
"There is simply no area of contemporary life be it medical, economic, educational, juridical, athletic, architectural, culinary, recreation, entertainmentthat goes unaddressed in the disability studies literature. Just when you thought that there was nothing new to say about social construction, difference, the performative, the universal, the particular and the body, disability studies comes along to demonstrate both the theoretical and practical urgencies to which these and other too often abstract terms really refer. If you've been hearing about disability studies, but didn't quite know what to make of it, this is the anthology for you."
Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law, Florida International University
"A classic just got even better! Only a few disciplines can claim a founding text. For disability studies, with its far-reaching implications for other fields, this is it. It all startsand re-starts in a superb second editionright here."
David B. Morris, author of The Culture of Pain
"This revised edition demonstrates the significant evolution of the field. Greater attention to such vital issues as globalization, gender, critical race studies, and cultural constructions appear in cogent new essays that enhance and complement the collection. As with the original Disability Studies Reader , this edition challenges its readers with pioneering studies of theoretical models and the politics of disability.
Susan Burch, author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
"This collection of scholarly essays strikes at the concept of normalcy and touches us on both personal and societal levels. From an academic perspective, the field of disability studies broadens our race, class, and gender discussions to include layers of identity and moments of connection. The Disability Studies Reader challenges us to reexamine human difference."
I. King Jordan, President, Gallaudet University This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.