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Title: BENDING OVER BACKWARDS
ESSAYS ON DISABILITY AND THE BODY
By: Lennard J. Davis, Michael Berube (Foreword)
Format: Hardback

List price: £80.00


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ISBN 10: 081471949X
ISBN 13: 9780814719497
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 September, 2002
Series: Cultural Front
Pages: 200
Description: Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics.
Synopsis: With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
Publication: US
Imprint: New York University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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