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9780415953337: The Disability Studies Reader (English, Dutch and Italian Edition)

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Synopsis

The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective.

Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell.

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About the Author

Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Education at the University of Illionis at Chicago. His is author of, among other books, Enforcing Normalcy and Bending Over Backwards.

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  • PublisherRoutledge
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0415953332
  • ISBN 13 9780415953337
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages472
  • EditorDavis Lennard
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