| Description |
x, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Need for Disability Studies -- 1. Constructing Normalcy / Lennard J. Davis -- 2. Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece / Martha L. Edwards -- 3. Spoken Daggers, Deaf Ears, and Silent Mouths / Jennifer L. Nelson and Bradley S. Berens -- 4. Disability and Society Before the Eighteenth Century / Margaret A. Winzer -- 5. Universalizing Marginality / Lennard J. Davis -- 6. A Silent Exile on this Earth / Douglas Baynton -- 7. Constructions of Deafness / Harlan Lane -- 8. Advertising the Acceptably Employable Image / Harlan Hahn -- 9. Abortion and Disability / Ruth Hubbard -- 10. Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- 11. Stigma / Lerita M. Coleman -- 12. AIDS and Its Metaphors / Susan Sontag -- 13. Nurturance, Sexuality, and Women with Disabilities / Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine -- 14. Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability / Susan Wendell -- 15. Feminist Theory, the Body, and the Disabled Figure / Rosemarie Garland Thomson |
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16. Integrating Disability Studies into the Existing Curriculum / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- 17. Silence Is Not Without Voice / H. Dirksen L. Bauman and Jennifer Drake -- 18. Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body / H. Dirksen L. Bauman -- 19. The Enfreakment of Photography / David Hevey -- 20. Modernist Freaks and Postmodernist Geeks / David Mitchell -- 21. Disability and Postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Third-World Novels / Sanjeev Kumor Uprety -- 22. Blindness and Art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 23. Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- 24. Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade -- 25. Queen of the Girls / Julia/Dolphin Trahan -- 26. Poems / Kenny Fries -- 27. Sex and Single Gimp / Billy Golfus |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p[429]-444. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-444) and index |
| Subject |
Disability studies.
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People with disabilities.
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Sociology of disability.
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Disabled Persons.
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Disabled
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| Author |
Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
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| LC no. |
96030187 |
| ISBN |
0415914701 (hb) |
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041591471X (pb) |
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