Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body

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Price
$32.20
Publisher
New York University Press
Publish Date
Pages
200
Dimensions
6.36 X 8.98 X 0.56 inches | 0.66 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780814719503

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About the Author
Lennard J. Davis is professor in the Departments of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Disability Studies Reader, among other books.
Michael Berube is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His six books include What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education and Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. He writes frequently for many national publications and hosts the blog www.michaelberube.com.
Reviews
"Davis's work offers creative and challenging examples that may be useful to our discipline and particularly to Disability historians. Bending Over Backwards remains an important and useful work for historians as a template for examining the myriad ways disability and Deafness infiltrate vital aspects of our identity, including laws, cultural icons, literature, and citizenship."--H-Net Reviews
"Lennard Davis is history in the making; for he is one of the foremost proponents of "disability studies," the newest theoretical kid on the block, noteworthy in part because it brings together scholars from the humanities and the medical sciences."--Stanley Fish "Chicago Tribune "
"Taken all together, the chapters offer an important, theoretically rich introduction to disability issues."--Novel
"[Its] uniqueness of thought is this collection's strength as it makes for an interesting and proactive read."--American Journal of Occupational Therapy
"Bending Over Backwards is a welcome dismemberment of all that was unknowingly artificial from the start."--The Minnesota Review