The Disability Studies Reader, Second Edition

Author: Lennard Davis
Published: 2009/04/22 - Updated: 2016/03/18
Topic: Disability Publications - Publications List

Page Content: Synopsis - Introduction - Main

Synopsis: Foundational arguments in disability studies and provocative new work from emerging young scholars in the field.

Introduction

This is an indispensable collection, bringing together foundational arguments in disability studies and provocative new work from emerging young scholars in the field. If you're curious as to why (and how) disability studies has stimulated so much debate in the humanities, The Disability Studies Reader is a great place to start finding out.

Main Item

From the Back Cover: "This is an indispensable collection, bringing together foundational arguments in disability studies and provocative new work from emerging young scholars in the field. If you're curious as to why (and how) disability studies has stimulated so much debate in the humanities, The Disability Studies Reader is a great place to start finding out." - Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Penn State University

"There is simply no area of contemporary life - be it medical, economic, educational, juridical, athletic, architectural, culinary, recreation, entertainment - that goes un-addressed in the disability studies literature. Just when you thought that there was nothing new to say about social construction, difference, the performative, the universal, the particular and the body, disability studies comes along to demonstrate both the theoretical and practical urgencies to which these and other too often abstract terms really refer. If you've been hearing about disability studies, but didn't quite know what to make of it, this is the anthology for you." - Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law, Florida International University

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"A classic just got even better! Only a few disciplines can claim a founding text. For disability studies, with its far-reaching implications for other fields, this is it. It all starts - and re-starts in a superb second edition - right here." - David B. Morris, author of The Culture of Pain

"This revised edition demonstrates the significant evolution of the field. Greater attention to such vital issues as globalization, gender, critical race studies, and cultural constructions appear in cogent new essays that enhance and complement the collection. As with the original Disability Studies Reader , this edition challenges its readers with pioneering studies of theoretical models and the politics of disability. --Susan Burch, author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II

"This collection of scholarly essays strikes at the concept of normalcy and touches us on both personal and societal levels. From an academic perspective, the field of disability studies broadens our race, class, and gender discussions to include layers of identity and moments of connection. The Disability Studies Reader challenges us to reexamine human difference." - I. King Jordan, President, Gallaudet University

Paperback: 472 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (August 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415953340
ISBN-13: 978-0415953344

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