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Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice

Challenging Essentialism

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

    1. Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

About the editor

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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