{"product_id":"the-disability-studies-reader-paperback-3","title":"The Disability Studies Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLennard J. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Disability Studies Reader\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investogates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the\u003cem\u003e Reader\u003c\/em\u003e's\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003etradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLennard J. Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Departments of Disability and Human Development, English, and Medical Education. He is the author of, among other works, \u003ci\u003eEnforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMy Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eObsession: A History\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 570\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.2 x 7.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386557382905,"sku":"9781138930230","price":171.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/HVy9mCruaL9781138930230_fc2f10ad-f10a-4712-9332-c7e4af7a2ecc.webp?v=1770189498","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-disability-studies-reader-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}