· 2016· Book chapter
The Disability Studies Reader
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The 5th edition of The Disability Studies Reader updates the field by focusing on interdependency, the human-animal relationship, and the construction of gender, body, and sexuality, challenging medical and scientific biases.
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- Focuses on interdependency, human-animal relations, and the construction of gender, body, and sexuality.
- Critiques biases in medical and scientific experiments and challenges the sound/diseased mind binary.
- Includes physical, mental, invisible disabilities, and issues of pain.
- Features a new generation of scholars addressing current issues in disability studies.
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Abstract
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader’s tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.
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