Keywords for Disability Studies

Keywords for Disability Studies
Title Keywords for Disability Studies PDF eBook
Author Rachel Adams
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 232
Release 2015-08-14
Genre Law
ISBN 1479845639

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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.

Raising Henry

Raising Henry
Title Raising Henry PDF eBook
Author Rachel Adams
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 229
Release 2013-09-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0300184298

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Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family's encounter with disability, "Raising Henry" is also an insightful exploration of today's knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family's story is impossible to forget.

Keywords for American Cultural Studies

Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Title Keywords for American Cultural Studies PDF eBook
Author Bruce Burgett
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 296
Release 2007-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0814799477

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A collection of sixty-four essays in which scholars from various fields examine terms and concepts used in cultural and American studies.

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies
Title Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies PDF eBook
Author M. Wappett
Publisher Springer
Pages 242
Release 2013-11-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1137371978

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Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.

Disability Rights and Wrongs

Disability Rights and Wrongs
Title Disability Rights and Wrongs PDF eBook
Author Tom Shakespeare
Publisher Routledge
Pages 241
Release 2006-12-05
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1134277733

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Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies PDF eBook
Author Blake Howe
Publisher
Pages 953
Release 2016
Genre Music
ISBN 0199331448

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Like race, gender, and sexuality, disability is a social and cultural construction. Music, musicians, and music-making simultaneously embody and shape representations and narratives of disability. Disability -- culturally stigmatized minds and bodies -- is one of the things that music in all times and places can be said to be about.

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Title Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies PDF eBook
Author The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 312
Release 2021-11-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 147980813X

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"This book deepens analyses of the relationships among race, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and political economy by foregrounding justice-oriented intersectional movements and scholarship including: Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from within queer and women of color justice movements"--