Lennard J Davis

Bending Over Backwards

Essays on Disability and the Body

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 162mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780814719503
• ISBN-10: 0814719503
• Artikelnr.: 21935201

Autorenporträt

Lennard J. Davis is head of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is also Professor of Disability and Human Development. His books include Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body and The Disability Studies Reader.