num_pages: 248
description: Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.
language: English
title: Extraordinary Bodies
titlecomplete: Extraordinary Bodies
genres: Academia, History, Theory, Social Issues, Disability, Health, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 268
publisher: Columbia University Press