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Bending over backwards : disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions
- Title
- Bending over backwards : disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions / Lennard J. Davis ; with a foreword by Michael B. Rub.
- Author
- Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 200 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cultural front
- Uniform Title
- Cultural front (Series)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism -- On disability as an unstable category -- Crips strike back -- The rise of disability studies -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability -- Criminal statements -- Homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt eighteenth century shipwrecked sailor -- Who put the The in the novel? -- Identity politics and disability in novel studies -- The rule of normalcy -- Politics and disability in the USA (United States of Ability) -- Bending over backwards -- Narcissism, the ADA, and the courts -- Go to the margins of the class -- Disability and hate crimes -- A voyage out (or is it back?) -- Class and disability in my life.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-17518
- ISBN
- 081471949X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814719503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002005282
- OCLC
- 49576943
- Author
- Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
- Title
- Bending over backwards : disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions / Lennard J. Davis ; with a foreword by Michael B. Rub.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
- Series
- Cultural frontCultural front (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-17518