The Disability Studies Reader

The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever before. Now available for the first time in eBook format 978-0-203-07788-7. Cover 1 The Disability Studies Reader 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Table of Contents 5 Preface to the Fourth Edition 13 1 Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power 15 PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 29 2 Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History 30 3 “Heaven’s Special Child”: The Making of Poster Children 47 4 Disabling Attitudes: U.S. Disability Law and the ADA Amendments Act 55 PART II: THE POLITICS OF DISABILITY 71 5 Disabling Postcolonialism: Global Disability Cultures and Democratic Criticism 72 6 Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World? 85 7 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 98 8 Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics 111 9 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism 126 10 “The Institution Yet to Come”: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens 143 PART III: STIGMA AND ILLNESS 155 11 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified 156 12 Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities 170 PART IV: THEORIZING DISABILITY 183 13 The Cost of Getting Better: Ability and Debility 184 14 Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship 192 15 Aesthetic Nervousness 209 16 The Social Model of Disability 221 17 Narrative Prosthesis 229 18 The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction 243 19 Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: “Deaf-Gain” and the Future of Human Diversity 253 PART V: IDENTITIES AND INTERSECTIONALITIES 268 20 The End of Identity Politics: On Disability as an Unstable Category 269 21 Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment—For Identity Politics in a New Register 284 22 Defining Mental Disability 304 23 Disability and Blackness 314 24 My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out 322 25 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 339 26 Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality 360 27 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 375 PART VI: DISABILITY AND CULTURE 385 28 Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body 386 29 Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability 403 30 “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 416 31 The Enfreakment of Photography 437 32 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account 452 33 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation 461 34 Autism as Culture 465 35 Disability, Design, and Branding: Rethinking Disability for the 21st Century 490 PART VII: FICTION, MEMOIR, AND POETRY 499 36 Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart 500 37 Unspeakable Conversations 510 38 Helen and Frida 523 39 “I Am Not One of The” and “Cripple Lullaby” 529 40 “Beauty and Variations” 531 41 Selections from Planet of the Blind 533 42 Selected Poems 540 List of Contributors 556 Credit Lines 562 Index 566 Preface to the fourth edition Historical perspectives Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis Disability and the justification of inequality in american history / Douglas Baynton "Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul Longmore Disabling attitudes : u.s. disability law and the ada amendments act / Elizabeth Emens The politics of disability Disabling postcolonialism : global disability cultures and democratic criticism / Clare Barker and Stuart Murray Abortion and disability : who should and should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard "Disability rights and selective abortion" / Marsha Saxton Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Berube A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis The institution yet to come : analyzing incarceration through a disability lens / Liat Ben-Moshe Stigma and illness Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman-Brown Unhealthy disabled / Susan Wendell Theorizing disability "Reassigning meaning" / Simi Linton Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder The unexceptional schizophrenic : a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast Deaf studies in the 21st century : deaf-gain and the future of the human / H-Dirksen L. Baumann and Joseph J. Murray Identities and intersectionalities The end of identity politics : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis Disability and the theory of complex embodiment : for identity politics in a new register / Tobin Siebers Defining mental disability / Margaret Price. "The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience."--Publisher's description