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ISBN 10: 1479839523 ISBN 13: 9781479839520

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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. 

Su questo libro

L'autore

Rachel Adams is Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1479839523
• ISBN 13: 9781479839520
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: Adams Rachel, Reiss Benjamin, Serlin David