Keywords for Disability Studies

Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life.

 

Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including ¿ethics,¿ ¿medicalization,¿ ¿performance,¿ ¿reproduction,¿ ¿identity,¿ and ¿stigma,¿ among others. Although the essays recognize that ¿disability¿ is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays approach disability as an embodied