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Bending Over Backwards : Essays on Disability and the Body /

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Davis, Lennard J. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bérubé, Michael (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2022]
Colección:Cultural Front
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD: SIDE SHOWS AND BACK BENDS
  • INTRODUCTION. PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY: THEY ARE YOU
  • 1. THE END OF IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE BEGINNING OF DISMODERNISM: ON DISABILITY AS AN UNSTABLE CATEGORY
  • 2. CRIPS STRIKE BACK: THE RISE OF DISABILITY STUDIES
  • 3. DR. JOHNSON, AMELIA, AND THE DISCOURSE OF DISABILITY
  • 4. CRIMINAL STATEMENTS: HOMOSEXUALITY AND TEXTUALITY IN THE ACCOUNT OF JAN SVILT- EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
  • 5. WHO PUT THE THE IN THE NOVEL? IDENTITY POLITICS AND DISABILITY IN NOVEL STUDIES
  • 6. THE RULE OF NORMALCY. POLITICS AND DISABILITY IN THE U.S.A. [UNITED STATES OF ABILITY]
  • 7. BENDING OVER BACKWARDS. NARCISSISM, THE ADA, AND THE COURTS
  • 8. GO TO THE MARGINS OF THE CLASS. DISABILITY AND HATE CRIMES
  • 9. A VOYAGE OUT (OR IS IT BACK?). CLASS AND DISABILITY IN MY LIFE
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR