The Disability Studies Reader

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Fifth Edition......Page 14
1 Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power......Page 18
Part I: Historical Perspectives......Page 32
 2 Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History......Page 34
 3 ‘‘Heaven’s Special Child’’: The Making of Poster Children......Page 52
 4 Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island......Page 60
Part II: The Politics of Disability......Page 88
 5 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion......Page 90
 6 Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics......Page 104
 7 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism......Page 119
 8 ‘‘The Institution Yet to Come’’: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens......Page 136
Part III: Stigma and Illness......Page 148
 9 Selections from Stigma......Page 150
 10 Stigma: An Enigma Demystified......Page 162
 11 Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities......Page 177
Part IV: Theorizing Disability......Page 190
 12 What’s So ‘‘Critical’’ about Critical Disability Studies?......Page 192
 13 The Social Model of Disability......Page 212
 14 Narrative Prosthesis......Page 221
 15 Aesthetic Nervousness......Page 236
 16 The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction......Page 249
 17 Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: ‘‘Deaf-Gain’’ and the Future of Human Diversity......Page 259
 18 Aesthetic Blindness: Symbolism, Realism, and Reality......Page 273
 19 Life with Dead Metaphors: Impairment Rhetoric in Social Justice Praxis......Page 286
 20 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X......Page 299
 21 Centering Justice on Dependency and Recovering Freedom......Page 322
Part V: Identities and Intersectionalities......Page 328
 22 Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register......Page 330
 23 Defining Mental Disability......Page 350
 24 My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out......Page 360
 25 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory......Page 377
 26 Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality......Page 398
 27 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence......Page 413
 28 Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?......Page 423
 29 Token of Approval......Page 433
Part VI: Disability and Culture......Page 442
 30 Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability......Page 444
 31 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account......Page 457
 32 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation......Page 467
 33 Why Disability Identity Matters: From Dramaturgy to Casting in John Belluso’s Pyretown......Page 471
 34 The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men......Page 487
Part VII: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry......Page 498
 35 Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart......Page 500
 36 Unspeakable Conversations......Page 511
 37 ‘‘I am Not One of The’’ and ‘‘Cripple Lullaby’’......Page 524
 38 Selections from Planet of the Blind......Page 527
 39 ‘‘The Magic Wand’’......Page 534
 40 ‘‘Biohack Manifesto’’......Page 536
List of Contributors......Page 539
Credit Lines......Page 545
Index......Page 548