The Disability Studies Reader
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The Disability Studies Readercollects, 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.
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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.
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Disability Theory Shares disability, disability studies, theory -
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Shares disability, disability studies, nonfiction -
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public Shares disability, disability studies, nonfiction
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