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245 04 a| The disability studies reader /c| edited by Lennard J. Davis.;

260 a| New York :b| Routledge,c| 1997.;

300 a| x, 454 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-444) and index.;

505 0 a| Constructing normalcy: the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / Martha L. Edwards -- Spoken daggers, deaf ears, and silent mouths: fantasies of deafness in early modern England / Jennifer L. Nelson and Bradley S. Berens -- Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair / Margaret A. Winzer -- Universalizing marginality: how Europe became deaf in the eighteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- A silent exile on this Earth: the metaphoric construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- Constructions of deafness / Harlan Lane -- Advertising the acceptably employable image: disability and capitalism / Harlan Hahn -- Abortion and disability: who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Nurturance, sexuality, and women with disabilities: the example of women and literature / Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Feminist theory, the body and the disabled figure / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Integrating disability studies into the existing curriculum: the example of "women and literature" at Howard University / Rosemarie Garland Thomason -- Silence is not without voice: including deaf culture within multicultural curricula / H. Dirksen L. Bauman and Jennifer Drake -- Toward a poetics of vision, space and the body: sign language and literary theory / H. Dirksen L. Baumann -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Modernist freaks and postmodernist geeks / David Mitchell -- Disability and postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and third-world novels / Sanjeev Kumor Uprety -- Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 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.;

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

Other author	Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description	x, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	People with disabilities. Sociology of disability. Disability studies.

Contents	Constructing normalcy: the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / Martha L. Edwards -- Spoken daggers, deaf ears, and silent mouths: fantasies of deafness in early modern England / Jennifer L. Nelson and Bradley S. Berens -- Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair / Margaret A. Winzer -- Universalizing marginality: how Europe became deaf in the eighteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- A silent exile on this Earth: the metaphoric construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- Constructions of deafness / Harlan Lane -- Advertising the acceptably employable image: disability and capitalism / Harlan Hahn -- Abortion and disability: who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Nurturance, sexuality, and women with disabilities: the example of women and literature / Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Feminist theory, the body and the disabled figure / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Integrating disability studies into the existing curriculum: the example of "women and literature" at Howard University / Rosemarie Garland Thomason -- Silence is not without voice: including deaf culture within multicultural curricula / H. Dirksen L. Bauman and Jennifer Drake -- Toward a poetics of vision, space and the body: sign language and literary theory / H. Dirksen L. Baumann -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Modernist freaks and postmodernist geeks / David Mitchell -- Disability and postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and third-world novels / Sanjeev Kumor Uprety -- Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-444) and index.
LCCN	96030187
ISBN	0415914701 (hb)
ISBN	041591471X (pb)

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

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