The Disability Studies Reader

Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the sole editor of the Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture. Rebecca Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University, where she teaches disability studies, transatlantic modernism, and poetics. Alexander Luft is a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as a contributing editor to Beginning With Disability: A Primer.

PART 1: Early Developments Toward a Critical Framework 1. Davis, Lennard J. "Disability, Normality, and Power." 2. Shakespeare, Tom. "The Social Model of Disability." 3. Longmore, Paul K. "Heaven's Special Child" 4. Siebers, Tobin. "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment." 5. McRuer, Robert. "Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence." 6. Bauman, H-Dirksen L. and Joseph J. Murray. "Deaf Studies in the Twenty-First Century." 7. Mitchell, David and Sharon Snyder. "Narrative Prosthesis." 8. Wendell, Susan. "Unhealthy Disabled." 9. Berube, Michael. "Disability, Democracy and the New Genetics." 10. Samuels, Ellen. "My Body, My Closet." PART 2: Historical Perspectives 11. Dolmage, Jay. "Disabled Upon Arrival." 12. Zwick, Tamara. "First Victims at Last." 13. Bearden, Elizabeth B. "Moctezuma's Zoo." 14. Tyler, Dennis Jr. "Losing Limbs in the Republic." PART 3: The Politics of Disability 15. Mirza, Mansha. "Refugee Camps, Asylum Detention, and the Geopolitics of Transnational Migration." 16. Kim, Eunjung." Folded Time and the Presence of Disability" 17. Hamraie, Aimi. "Critical Access Studies" 18. Kazemi, Sona. "Whose Disability (Studies?)" PART 4: Theorizing Disability 19. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. "Disability Bioethics." 20. Kafer, Alison. "At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X" 21. Ibrahim, Mohamed. "Mental Health in Kenya: Not Yet Uhuru." 22. McBryde Johnson, Harriet. "Unspeakable Conversations." PART 5: Identities and Intersectionalities 23. Erevelles, Nirmala and Andrea Minear. "Unspeakable Offenses." 24. Alshammari, Shahd. "A Hybridized Academic Identity." 25. Taylor, Sunaura. "Vegans, Freaks, and Animals: Toward a New Table Fellowship" 26. Schalk, Sami. "Contextualizing Black Disability and the Culture of Dissemblance" 27. Clare, Eli. "Promise of Cure" 28. Sanchez, Rebecca. "Doing Disability With Others" PART 6: Disability and Culture 29. Kleege, Georgina. "Blindness and Visual Culture. 30. Pickens, Theri. "Making Black Madness" 31. Minich, Julie Avril. "Who Is Human?" 32. Manning, Lynn. "The Magic Wand." PART 7: Disability and Social Policy 33. Brown, Lydia X.Z. "Legal Ableism, Interrupted." 34. Ben-Moshe, Liat. "Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization." 35. Wilson. Jan Doolittle. "Reimagining Disability and Inclusive Education" 36. Yapp, Hentyle. "Disability as Exception: China, Race, and Human Rights" PART 8: Sixth Edition Featured Section: Neurodivergence 37. Stenning, Ann. "Understanding Sympathy Through a Study of Autistic Life Writing" 38. Yergeau, M. Remi. "Involution" 39. Lewis, Bradley. "A Mad Fight." 40. Price, Margaret. "Defining Mental Disability." 41. Gordon, Timotheus "T.J." Jr.. "#BlackAutisticJoy in ADA 30" 42. Wang, Esme Weijun. "Yale Will Not Save You."