Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities - Softcover

 
9780873529815: Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities

Synopsis

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.

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Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.

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"This collection--combining scholarship, moral seriousness, and wit--is an exemplary introduction to the politics and the pedagogy of disability studies."

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ISBN 10:  0873529804 ISBN 13:  9780873529808
Publisher: Modern Language Association of A..., 2002
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