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Keywords for Disability Studies (Keywords, 7) by Rachel Adams (ed.), Benjamin Reiss (ed.), David Serlin (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads Keywords for Disability Studies (Keywords, 7)?

Author

Rachel Adams (ed.), Benjamin Reiss (ed.), David Serlin (ed.)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479839520

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social_sciences