Beginning with Disability — Lennard J. Davis et al. (2018)

Book Description

29. An Advertising Aesthetic: Real Beauty and Visual Impairment — 30. Your Body Isn’t Your World: The Heroes of the Mad Max Video Game and Disability — 31. Autis(i)m and Representation: Autis(i)m, Disability Simulation Games, and Neurodiversity — 32. Why I’m a Crippled Poet — Part 7 The Disability Yet to Come — 33. Disability Studies in K-12 Education — 34. Presuming Competence — 35. Disability and Innovation — 36. “What Will You Gain When You Lose?” Deafness, Disability Gain, Creativity, and Human Difference — 37. Disability Studies: A New Normal — Part 8 Subject to Debate — 38. Disability and Sexual Objectification — A. Longing for the Male Gaze — B. Disabled Women and Sexual Objectification (or the Lack Thereof) — 39. Sexual Surrogacy — Disability and Paying for Sex — 40. Prenatal Testing and Abortion — A. The Benefits of Prenatal Testing — B. Disabled U.K. Lawmaker: End Abortion Discrimination Against the Disabled — 41. Assisted Suicide — A. The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws — B. Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal — 42. Cochlear Implants — A. Infants May Benefit from Advanced Cochlear Implants — B. Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to be “Fixed”–43. Nondisabled Actors in Disabled Roles — A. We Wouldn’t Accept Actors Blacking Up, So Why Applaud “Cripping Up”? — B. Able-Bodied Actors in Disabled Roles: Modern-day “Blacking Up” … Or Is It? — Sources — Index

Book Details

• Author: Lennard Davis; Alexander Luft
• Publisher: Routledge
• Published Date: 2018
• Published Year: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9781138211360