The Disability Studies Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0415953340
- ISBN-13
- 9780415953344
- Series
- The Disability Studies Reader
- Category
- Disability studies
- Pages
- 451
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Author
- Lennard J. Davis
Description
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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