Disability Studies: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Disability Studies? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which work set the stage for disability studies as an active, political movement?
Nothing About Us Without Us
The Birth of the Clinic
Extraordinary Bodies
The Disability Studies Reader
Q. In which work is modern professional medicine described as a key component of a society's power/knowledge structures, building modern, "docile" bodies?
Freakery
Enforcing Normalcy
The Birth of the Clinic
Claiming Disability
Q. Which Gothic novel reflects the fears of contemporary Victorian society over both the "Eastern Threat" and the discoveries related to germ theory?
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Erewhon
Q. Which work argues that American culture and literature combine with insights from modern medicine and science to construct an image of disability as "pathological" rather than "prodigious"?
Extraordinary Bodies
Claiming Disability
Nothing About Us Without Us
Enforcing Normalcy
Q. Which novel draws from contemporary insights from psychology regarding the three-part nature of human consciousness, as well as from fears of the phenomenon of "double consciousness"?
Brave New World
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein