The Disability Studies Reader

Author: Lennard J. Davis
ISBN: 9780415914710

People with disabilities comprise 15 per cent of the population nationally and worldwide, making them the largest physical minority. Yet they have been marginalized not only in society at large but within the discourses of knowledge. Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy, and postcolonial studies, the collection attempts to provide a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability by problematizing the notion of the normal body, revealing assumptions in the politics and poetics of social and physical space, sexuality, language, textuality, access to resources, and public policy decisions concerning the body.

Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Social Science / Human Services, Social Science / Sociology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Disabilities)