The Disability Studies Reader
ISBN 10: 0415953340 ISBN 13: 9780415953344
Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
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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.
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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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Disability Studies Reader
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2 Edition.