The Disability Studies Reader
Auteur: Lennard J. Davis
Nombre de pages: 454 pages
ISBN: 041591471X, 9780415914710
Edition: Psychology Press
Date de publication: Psychology Press
Description: The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective. Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell.