by Lennard J. Davis (Editor)
The Disability Studies Reader is the most comprehensive introduction to in disability studies. Now in its third edition, it contains a wide range of seminal, cutting-edge and classic articles in the field. The collection covers cultural studies, identity politics, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, the visual arts, gender and race studies, as well as memoir, poetry, fiction, and prose non-fiction.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Edition: 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0415873762
ISBN 13: 9780415873765
The Disability Studies Reader is a classic of invention, intervention, and interdiciplinarity. Contesting at every juncture the arbitrariness of signs such as normal, natural, healthy, and able bodied, the collection rewrites epistemologies of pedagogy and research long considered standard. The work's judgments are rejuvenating, its observations insightful, its creativity a gift. -Houston Baker, English, Vanderbilt University
Over the past 15 years, disability studies have grown not only along with, but because of, Lennard Davis's Disability Studies Reader. This anthology provides a flexible, advanced overview of the state of scholarship on disability in the humanities and reaffirms the DSR's position as the must have text for those venturing into disability studies at any level. -Robert A. Wilson, Philosophy, University of Alberta
Professor Davis has compiled an outstanding selection of essays from leading American and international disability scholars and activists. The book is a comprehensive survey of disability culture, politics, identity, history, and fiction that can both enlighten the educated student of disability studies and serve as an introduction to the disability experience. -Paul S. Miller, Law, University of Washington