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The Disability Studies Reader

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415953340
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Disability Studies Reader written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of "The Disability Studies Reader" builds and improves upon the classic first edition, which has sold well over 6000 copies since 1999. As a field, disability studies burst onto the scene across the social sciences and humanities in the 1990s, and the first edition of the reader gathered the best work that had been written on the subject, including essays by famous authors such as Susan Sontag and Erving Goffman. The new edition is more global in its coverage and adds material on genetic testing, the human genome, queer studies, and issues in developing countries. The size of the audience has grown since the first edition's publication, and the second edition's new material will make it even more useful for courses on the subject. Courses on the subject have mushroomed in the past ten years, and can now be found across the social sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences.

The Disability Studies Reader

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131739786X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Disability Studies Reader written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader’s tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

Bending Over Backwards

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719503
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Bending Over Backwards written by Lennard J. Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text re-examines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. It argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself.

Beginning with Disability

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315453207
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Beginning with Disability written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplines—including education, sociology, communications, psychology, social sciences, and humanities—features accessible, readable, and relatively short chapters that do not require specialized knowledge. Lennard Davis, along with a team of consulting editors, has compiled a number of blogs, vlogs, and other videos to make the materials more relatable and vivid to students. "Subject to Debate" boxes spotlight short pro and con pieces on controversial subjects that can be debated in class or act as prompts for assignments.

The Disability Studies Reader

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415630525
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Disability Studies Reader written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Disability Bioethics Reader

Author : Joel Michael Reynolds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000587215
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Disability Bioethics Reader written by Joel Michael Reynolds and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability. Introductory and advanced textbooks in bioethics focus almost entirely on issues that disproportionately affect disabled people and that centrally deal with becoming or being disabled. However, such textbooks typically omit critical philosophical reflection on disability. Directly addressing this omission, this volume includes 36 chapters, most appearing here for the first time, that cover key areas pertaining to disability bioethics, such as: state-of-the-field analyses of modern medicine, bioethics, and disability theory health, disease, and the philosophy of medicine issues at the edge- and end-of-life, including physician-aid-in-dying, brain death, and minimally conscious states enhancement and biomedical technology invisible disabilities, chronic pain, and chronic illness implicit bias and epistemic injustice in health care disability, quality of life, and well-being race, disability, and healthcare justice connections between disability theory and aging, trans, and fat studies prenatal testing, abortion, and reproductive justice. The Disability Bioethics Reader, unlike traditional bioethics textbooks, also engages with decades of empirical and theoretical scholarship in disability studies—scholarship that spans the social sciences and humanities—and gives serious consideration to the history of disability activism.

Handbook of Disability Studies

Author : Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761928744
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Disability Studies written by Gary L. Albrecht and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines. To provide insight and perspective, the volume is divided into three sections: The shaping of disability studies as a field; experiencing disability; and, disability in context. Each section, written by world class figures, consists of original chapters designed to map the field and explore the key conceptual, theoretical, methodological, practice and policy issues that constitute the field. Each chapter provides a critical review of an area, positions and literature and an agenda for future research and practice. The handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability studies. The book will be of interest to disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists alike. The book aims to define the existing field, stimulate future debate, encourage respectful discourse between different interest groups and move the field a step forward.

Stuck in Neutral

Author : Terry Trueman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062216996
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Stuck in Neutral written by Terry Trueman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review

Another Disability Studies Reader?

Author : Geert Van Hove
Publisher : Garant
ISBN 13 : 9789044114751
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Another Disability Studies Reader? written by Geert Van Hove and published by Garant. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Claiming Disability

Author : Simi Linton
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814752748
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Claiming Disability written by Simi Linton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake. Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton explores the divisions society creates—the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state. Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.

The End of Normal

Author : Lennard Davis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052020
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The End of Normal written by Lennard Davis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the twenty-first century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Using contemporary discussions of biopower and biopolitics, Davis focuses on social and cultural production—particularly on issues around the different body and mind. The End of Normal seeks an analysis that works comfortably in the intersection between science, medicine, technology, and culture, and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, bodily practices, disability, science and medical studies, feminist materialism, psychiatry, and psychology.

Disability & the Politics of Education

Author : Susan Lynn Gabel
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488943
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Disability & the Politics of Education written by Susan Lynn Gabel and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader is a rich resource that deals comprehensively with the many aspects of the complex topic of disability studies in education. For nearly two decades, global attention has been given to education as a human right through global initiatives such as Education for All (EFA) and the Salamanca Statement. Yet according to UNESCO, reaching the goals of EFA remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the global community. Today, millions of the world's disabled children cannot obtain a basic childhood education, particularly in countries with limited resources. Even in the wealthiest countries, many disabled children and youth are educationally segregated from the nondisabled, particularly if they are labeled with significant cognitive impairment. International agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank have generated funds for educational development but, unfortunately, these funds are administered with the assumption that «west is best», thereby urging developing countries to mimic educational policies in the United States and the United Kingdom in order to prove their aid-worthiness. This «McDonaldization» of education reproduces the labeling, resource allocation, and social dynamics long criticized in disability studies. The authors in this volume explore these subjects and other complexities of disability and the politics of education. In doing so, they demonstrate the importance and usefulness of international perspectives and comparative approaches.

Disability Studies

Author : Colin Cameron
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446292746
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Disability Studies written by Colin Cameron and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people′s movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model perspective, demonstrating how future practice and discourse could break down barriers and lead to more equal relationships for disabled people in everyday life. An interdisciplinary and broad-ranging text, the book includes 50 chapters on topics relevant across health and social care. Reflective questions and suggestions for further reading throughout will help readers gain a critical appreciation of the subject and expand their knowledge. This will be valuable reading for students and professionals across disability studies, health, nursing, social work, social care, social policy and sociology.

Rethinking Normalcy

Author : Rod Michalko
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303639
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Normalcy written by Rod Michalko and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book exemplify ways of questioning our collective relations to normalcy, as such relations affect the lives of both disabled and currently non-disabled people."--Pub. desc.

Literacy and Deaf People

Author : Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563682711
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Deaf People written by Brenda Jo Brueggemann and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people's literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than a student's past educational context as determined by the dominant hearing society. Divided into two parts, the book opens with four chapters by leading scholars Tom Humphries, Claire Ramsey, Susan Burch, and volume editor Brenda Jo Brueggemann. These scholars use diverse disciplines to reveal how schools where deaf children are taught are the product of ideologies about teaching, about how deaf children learn, and about the relationship of ASL and English. Part Two features works by Elizabeth Engen and Trygg Engen; Tane Akamatsu and Ester Cole; Lillian Buffalo Tompkins; Sherman Wilcox and BoMee Corwin; and Kathleen M. Wood. The five chapters contributed by these noteworthy researchers offer various views on multicultural and bilingual literacy instruction for deaf students. Subjects range from a study of literacy in Norway, where Norwegian Sign Language recently became the first language of instruction for deaf pupils, to the difficulties faced by deaf immigrant and refugee children who confront institutional and cultural clashes. Other topics include the experiences of deaf adults who became bilingual in ASL and English, and the interaction of the pathological versus the cultural view of deafness. The final study examines literacy among Deaf college undergraduates as a way of determining how the current social institution of literacy translates for Deaf adults and how literacy can be extended to deaf people beyond the age of 20.

Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Author : Sarah Jaquette Ray
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496201671
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities written by Sarah Jaquette Ray and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing "disability." Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. With a historical scope spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this collection not only presents the foundational documents informing this intersection of fields but also showcases the most current work, making it an indispensable reference.

Enforcing Normalcy

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780014
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Enforcing Normalcy written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term "normal" as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.