The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis.

Previous ed.: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Historical perspectives -- 1.Constructing normalcy. Lennard J. Davis -- 2.A brief history of discrimination and disabled people. Colin Barnes -- 3.A silent exile on this earth: the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth cetury. Douglas Baynton -- 4.Disability and the human genome. James C. Wilson -- 5.Medieval construction of blindness in France and England. Edward Wheatley -- 6.Construction of deafness. Harlan Lane -- 7.(Post) colonizing disability. Mark Sherry -- 8.Abortion and disability: who should and should not inhabit the world? Ruth Hubbard -- 9.Disability rights and selective abortion. Marsha Saxton -- 10.Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization. Michael Davidson -- 11.The dimensions of disability opression. James Charlton -- 12.A mad fight: psychiatry and disabilty activism -- Part III.Stigma and illness. 13.Stigma: an enigma demystified. Lerita M. Coleman Brown -- 14.AIDS and its metaphors. Susan Sontag -- 15.Beholding. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 16. On (almost) passing. Brenda Brueggemann -- Part IV.Theorizing disability -- 17.Reassigning meaning. Simi Linton -- 18.Enabling disability: rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- 19.Aesthetic nervousness. Ato Quayson -- 20.The social model of disability. Tom Shakespeare -- 21.Narrative prosthesis. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder -- 22.The unexceptional schizophrenic: a postmodern introduction. Catherine Prendergast -- Part V: Identities and intersectionalities -- 23.The end of identity politics: on disability as an unstabe category. Lennard J. Davis -- 24.Disability and the theory of complex emobdiment - for identity politics in a new register. Tobin Siebers -- 25.Towards a feminist tehory of disability. Susan Wendell -- 26.Integrating disability, transforming feminst theory. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 27.Is disability studies actually white disabity studies. Chris Bell -- 28.Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence. Robert McRuer -- 29.Deaf people: a different center. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries -- 30.Hearing aids are not deaf: a historical perspective on technology in the deaf world. R. A. R. Edwards -- 31.Minority politics in Korea: disability, interraciality, and gender. Eunjung Kim -- 32.This is what we thing. Daniel Docherty ... et al -- Part VI: Disability and culture -- 33.Crippling heterosexuality, queering able-bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the contested masculine body. Cynthia Barounis -- 32.The vulnerable articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mulllins, and Matthew Barney. Marquard Smith -- 35.Sculpting body ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the public display of disability. Ann Millett-Gallant -- 36. 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 -- 37.The enfreakment of photography. David Hevey -- 38.Blindness and visual culutre: an eyewitness account. Georgina Kleege -- 39.Disability, life narrative, and representaton. G. Thomams Couser -- 40.Autism as culture. Joseph N. Straus -- Part VII: Fiction, memoir and poetry -- 41.Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart. Eli Clare -- 42.Unspeakable conversations. Harriet McBryde Johnson -- 43.Helen and Frida. Anne Finger -- 44.I am not of of the and Cripple Lullaby. Cherly Marie Wade -- 45.Beauty and variations. Kenny Fries -- 46.Selction from Cripple Poetics. Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus -- 47.Selections from The Cry of the Gull. Emmanuelle Laborit -- 48.Selections from Planet of the Blind. Steve Kuusisto.

Focusing on the field of disability studies, this book presents writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective. It draws together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies.