Bending over backwards
Subtitle: disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions
By: Lennard J. Davis ; with a foreword by Michael Bérubé
Series: Cultural front; Cultural front (Series)
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: United States; People with disabilities -- United States; Sociology of disability -- United States; Disability studies -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism; title: On disability as an unstable category; title: Crips strike back; title: The rise of disability studies; title: Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability; title: Criminal statements; title: Homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt eighteenth century shipwrecked sailor; title: Who put the The in the novel?; title: Identity politics and disability in novel studies; title: The rule of normalcy; title: Politics and disability in the USA (United States of Ability); title: Bending over backwards; title: Narcissism, the ADA, and the courts; title: Go to the margins of the class; title: Disability and hate crimes; title: A voyage out (or is it back?); title: Class and disability in my life