9780814719497-081471949X-Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body

Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780814719497
ISBN-10: 081471949X
Author: Lennard J. Davis
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780814719497
ISBN-10: 081471949X
Author: Lennard J. Davis
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages

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Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body (ISBN-13: 9780814719497 and ISBN-10: 081471949X), written by authors Lennard J. Davis, was published by NYU Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Sciences books. You can easily purchase or rent Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
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