The Disability Studies Reader

The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader’stradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

• No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
• Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front)
• Introducing Disability Studies
• A Disability History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
• Disability Theory (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
• The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
• The Development of Language (9th Edition)
• Good Kings Bad Kings: A Novel
• Keywords for Disability Studies
• Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure