Keywords for Disability Studies

Published by New York University Press 2015

Keywords for Disability Studies

Edited by: Rachel Adams , Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin

Volume 7 in the series Keywords

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479845637.001.0001

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About this book

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies

Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life.

Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including “ethics,” “medicalization,” “performance,” “reproduction,” “identity,” and “stigma,” among others. Although the essays recognize that “disability” is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays approach disability as an embodied condition, a mutable historical phenomenon, and a social, political, and cultural identity.

An invaluable resource for students and scholars alike, Keywords for Disability Studies brings the debates that have often remained internal to disability studies into a wider field of critical discourse, providing opportunities for fresh theoretical considerations of the field’s core presuppositions through a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more.

Author / Editor information

Adams Rachel :

Rachel Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of many books, including Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, and co-editor of Keywords for Disability Studies.Reiss Benjamin :

Benjamin Reiss is Professor of English at Emory University and co-director of the Emory Disability Studies Initiative.Serlin David :

David Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.Rachel Adams (Editor)
Rachel Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of many books, including Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, and co-editor of Keywords for Disability Studies.

Benjamin Reiss (Editor)
Benjamin Reiss is Professor of English at Emory University and co-director of the Emory Disability Studies Initiative.

David Serlin (Editor)
David Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews

Keywords for Disability Studiesdeftly demonstrates how disability may act as a conjuncture (like race) that opens cultural studies to new and crucial means of making sense of economic and cultural contexts, and deploying that knowledge politically. Its interdisciplinarity, broad-ranging perspectives, and deeply enacted connection to material politics ought to make this an exciting and illuminating read for those interested in cultural studies, disability, or both. In this intersection, there is the potential for the best kind of acculturation, a mutually transformative and progressive growth.

Keywords for Disability Studies is an important primer featuring over 60 short essays on key concepts within an interdisciplinary field, destined for syllabi and bookshelves both within and outside of academia.

The entries are a brief but comprehensive take on some of the concepts found within disability studies. Coherent, direct, and informative,Keywords for Disability Studieswill undoubtedly generate questions and provide valuable resources for students and scholars alike in nearly any discipline for the foreseeable future.

Ato Quayson,author of Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation:
No mere inventory,Keywords for Disability Studiesis an invaluable conceptual mapping of the field. With entries that combine succinctness with clarity, the volume as a whole effectively synthesizes ongoing debates and evolving ideas to make this a most welcome addition to the field of disability studies.

Accessible and versatile,Keywords for Disability Studiescapaciously welcomes both newcomers and veterans of the field.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Disability Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2 Ability Fiona Kumari Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3 Access Bess Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
4 Accident Jill C. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
5 Accommodation Elizabeth F. Emens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
6 Activism Denise M. Nepveux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
7 Aesthetics Michael Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
8 Affect Lisa Cartwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
9 Aging Kathleen Woodward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
10 Blindness D. A. Caeton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
11 Citizenship Allison Carey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
12 Cognition Ralph James Savarese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
13 Communication Carol Padden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
14 Crip Victoria Ann Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
15 Deafness Douglas C. Baynton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
16 Deformity Helen Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
17 Dependency Eva Feder Kittay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
18 Design Christina Cogdell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
19 Diversity Lennard J. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
20 Education Margaret Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
21 Embodiment Abby Wilkerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
22 Ethics Rebecca Garden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
23 Eugenics Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
24 Euthanasia Harold Braswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
25 Family Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
26 Fat Kathleen LeBesco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
27 Freak Leonard Cassuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
28 Gender Kim Q. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
29 Genetics David Wasserman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
30 History Susan Burch and Kim E. Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
31 Human D. Christopher Gabbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
32 Identity Julia Miele Rodas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
33 Illness G. Thomas Couser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
34 Impairment Michael Ralph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
35 Institutions Licia Carlson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
36 Invisibility Susannah B. Mintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
37 Madness Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
38 Medicalization Sayantani DasGupta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
39 Minority Jeffrey A. Brune Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
40 Modernity Janet Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
41 Narrative David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
42 Normal Tanya Titchkosky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
43 Pain Martha Stoddard Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
44 Passing Ellen Samuels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
45 Performance Petra Kuppers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
46 Prosthetics Katherine Ott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
47 Queer Tim Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
48 Race Nirmala Erevelles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
49 Rehabilitation Gary L. Albrecht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
50 Representation Michael Bérubé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
51 Reproduction Adrienne Asch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
52 Rights Maya Sabatello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
53 Senses Kathryn Linn Geurts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
54 Sex Margrit Shildrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
55 Sexuality Robert McRuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
56 Space Rob Imrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
57 Stigma Heather Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
58 Technology Mara Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
59 Trauma James Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
60 Visuality Georgina Kleege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
61 Vulnerability Ani B. Satz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
62 Work Sarah F. Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
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Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: August 14, 2015
ISBN: 9781479845637