| Title | : | Keywords for Disability Studies |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 234 |
| Publication | : | First published June 19, 2015 |
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.
Keywords for Disability Studies Reviews
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I read this for class. The dates are all wrong, basically I read it all second semester. I thought it offered a good introduction to disability studies, especially for people who came into the class knowing nothing. But for me it felt like a lot of the keyword entries just sorta scratched the surface of the topics they were supposed to be discussing. Nothing bad about it, just could’ve been more.
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Eye opening. Great conversation starter!
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Great insights not only into the emerging field of disability studies, but how disability works in all our lives.
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Incredible!
