Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice : Challenging Essentialism.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Challenging Essentialism in Disability Studies -- 2 The Case of Pre-Natal Diagnosis -- 3 The Recuperated Materiality of Disability and Animal Studies -- 4 The Construction of Hirsutism and Its Controlling and Disabling Manifestations -- 5 Reading Autism in Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' -- 6 De-Colonizing Deaf Education: An Analysis of the Claims and Implications of the Application of Post-Colonial Theory to Deaf Education -- 7 ADHD Mythology -- 8 Queer Regenerative Work? New Eugenics? On the Travels of the IVF Embryo -- 9 The Madness of Interpretation and Meaning in Psychoanalytic Treatment and Literature: Reading Patrick Casement's 'A Retrospective Overview' -- 10 Seeing Vision: Gesture, Movement and Colour in Painting in Rosemarie Garland- Thomson's Staring: How We Look -- 11 '[…] he perceives himself as a caterpillar […]': Constructions of the Disabled Subject in the Critical Response to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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