The Disability Studies Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415914701 ISBN 13: 9780415914703

Verlag: Routledge, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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The second edition of The Disability Studies Reader builds and improves upon the classic first edition, which has sold well over 6000 copies since 1999. As a field, disability studies burst onto the scene across the social sciences and humanities in the 1990s, and the first edition of the reader gathered the best work that had been written on the subject, including essays by famous authors such as Susan Sontag and Erving Goffman. The new edition is more global in its coverage and adds material on genetic testing, the human genome, queer studies, and issues in developing countries. The size of the audience has grown since the first edition's publication, and the second edition's new material will make it even more useful for courses on the subject. Courses on the subject have mushroomed in the past ten years, and can now be found across the social sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415914701
• ISBN 13: 9780415914703
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: University Of Illinois
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