Disability Studies Reader
SKU: 9781138930230
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Author:Lennard Davis
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ISBN:9781138930230
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Publication Date:October 2016
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Pages:554
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Routledge
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Product description
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasising questions of interdependency and independence, the human / animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investogates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well.Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader's tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.
Featured in the Summer 2017Psychology Newsletter.
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Product description
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasising questions of interdependency and independence, the human / animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investogates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well.
Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader's tradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.
Featured in the Summer 2017Psychology Newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.