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The disability studies reader
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- Creator
- edited by Lennard J. Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 1997
- Physical Details
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- x, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415914703, 0415914701, 9780415914710, 041591471X
- OCLC
- ocm35192183
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-444) and index.
- Introduction: The need for disability studies -- Historical perspectives -- Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis -- Deaf and dumb in ancient greece / Martha L. Edwards -- Spoken daggers, deaf ears, and silent mouths / Jennifer L. Nelson and Bradley S. Berens -- Disability and society before the eighteenth century / Margaret A. Winzer -- Universalizing marginality / Lennard J. Davis -- A silent exile on this earth / Douglas Baynton -- Politics of disability -- Constructions of deafness / Harlan Lane -- Advertising the acceptably employable image / Harlan Hahn -- Abortion and disability / Ruth Hubbard -- Stigma and illness -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma / Lerita M. Coleman -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Gender and disability -- Nurturance, sexuality, and women with disabilities / Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Feminist theory, the body, and the disabled figure -- Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Disability and education -- Integrating disability studies into existing curriculum / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Silence is not without voice / H. Dirksen L Bauman and Jennifer Drake -- Toward a poetices of vision, space, and the body / H. Dirksen L. Bauman -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Modernist freaks and postmodernist geeks / David Mitchell -- Disability and postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's midnight children and third-world novels / Sanjeev Kumor Uprety -- Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Fiction and poetry -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Queen of the girls / Julia/Dolphin Trahan -- Poems / Kenny Fries -- Sex and single gimp / Billy Golfus