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The sixth edition of The Disability Studies Reader brings in new topics, scholars, writers, artists, and essays, to address links between ableism and imperialism, disability bioethics, and the relationship between…
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Lennard J. Davis
Lennard J. Davis critiques literature written by the middle and upper classes that depict the poor through harmful stereotypes and argues that writers who were once poor are best positioned…
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Lennard J Davis
A study of the history and contemporary significance of the cultural assumptions that govern our conception of people with disabilities. The book shows how current notions about the physically disabled…
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By making friends with signs , Lennard Davis argues, we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the…
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In this thought-provoking work, Lennard J. Davis explores the intersection of ideology and fiction in various literary genres. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Davis highlights how novels can…
While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory reader for…
Recounts childhood loneliness and fear, adolescent frustration compounded by embarrassment at the author’s parents’ deafness, and intellectual aspirations that ran counter to their compliant stoicism. This title describes his father’s…
In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor’s life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
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The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA-the eyes on the prize moment for disability rights; ;The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and…
Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We’ve developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real……
We live in an age of obsession. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category. Beginning with the roots of the disease in…
Lennard J Davis (University of Illinois Chicago USA)
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Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act…
