num_pages: 472
description: The Disability Studies Reader collects, 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.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.
language: English
title: The Disability Studies Reader
titlecomplete: The Disability Studies Reader
genres: Social Justice, History, Sociology, Disability, Research, Disability Studies, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Queer
ratings_count: 287
publisher: Routledge