Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Challenging Essentialism in Disability Studies

   • Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

   Pages 1-5

3. The Case of Pre-Natal Diagnosis

   • Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

   Pages 6-19

4. The Recuperated Materiality of Disability and Animal Studies

   • Sue Walsh

   Pages 20-36

5. The Construction of Hirsutism and Its Controlling and Disabling Manifestations

   • Louise Tondeur

   Pages 37-53

6. Reading Autism in Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street’

   • Helen Santa Maria

   Pages 54-75

7. De-Colonizing Deaf Education: An Analysis of the Claims and Implications of the Application of Post-Colonial Theory to Deaf Education

   • Hannah Anglin-Jaffe

   Pages 76-97

8. ADHD Mythology

   • Simon Bailey

   Pages 98-117

9. Queer Regenerative Work? New Eugenics? On the Travels of the IVF Embryo

   • Ute Kalender

   Pages 118-131

10. The Madness of Interpretation and Meaning in Psychoanalytic Treatment and Literature: Reading Patrick Casement’s ‘A Retrospective Overview’

    • Catrin Edwards

    Pages 132-148

11. Seeing Vision: Gesture, Movement and Colour in Painting in Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Staring: How We Look

    • YuKuan Chen

    Pages 149-164

12. ‘[…] he perceives himself as a caterpillar […]’: Constructions of the Disabled Subject in the Critical Response to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

    • Neil Cocks

    Pages 165-184

13. Back Matter

    Pages 185-197

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Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it crucially demonstrates the consequences of radically rethinking the roles of language and perspective in constructing identities.

• Disability
• Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Body
• Sexuality
• Gender
• Animal Studies
• Autism
• ADHD
• Reproduction
• IVF
• Voice
• Agency
• Vision
• Deafness
• Mental Health
• Race
• Affect
• Language
• Perspective
• gender
• psychoanalysis

• Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK

  Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, University of Reading, UK Sue Walsh, University of Reading, UK Louise Tondeur, University of Roehampton, UK Helen Santa Maria heads a dance school in Reading, UK Hannah Anglin-Jaffe, University of Exeter, UK Simon Bailey, University of Manchester, UK Ute Kalender, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany Catrin Edwards works in policy and campaigns for a disabilities charity YuKuan Chen, Soochow University, Taiwan Neil Cocks, University of Reading, UK

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