Keywords for Disability Studies

Keywords

by Rachel Adams (editor), David Serlin (Editor), Benjamin Reiss (Editor)

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.

Genres: Disability Studies, Disability, Nonfiction, Academic, School

231 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 19, 2015

About the author

Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles and book reviews, as well as two books: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (both published by the University of Chicago Press). Her writing has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times of London. Her book, Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, will be published by Yale University Press in September. She lives in New York City.

Source: About Rachel Adams.

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Carley Blank · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eye opening. Great conversation starter!

[Nicole Aceto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great insights not only into the emerging field of disability studies, but how disability works in all our lives.

[Olivia Hester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible!