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34 produkter
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
E-bok, 2014
130 kr
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In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of …
Disability Studies Reader
Häftad, 2016
1218 kr
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The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader 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 …
Obsession
A History
E-bok, 2009
410 kr
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We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of …
Obsession
A History
Inbunden, 2008
456 kr
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We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of …
Obsession
A History
Häftad, 2009
192 kr
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We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of …
My Sense of Silence
Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness
Häftad, 2008
378 kr
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Selected as an "Editors Choice" by the Chicago TribuneLennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his …
Sonnets
A Novel
Inbunden, 2001
297 kr
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In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor's life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets.What if Shakespeare found himself living in modern-day Manhattan? The Sonnets follows Will Marlowe, a Columbia University English …
Enabling Acts
The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest USMinority Its Rights
E-bok, 2015
256 kr
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The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model …
Factual Fictions
The Origins of the English Novel
Häftad, 1997
445 kr
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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real...The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h
Bending Over Backwards
Essays on Disability and the Body
Inbunden, 2002
965 kr
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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 …
Bending Over Backwards
Essays on Disability and the Body
Häftad, 2002
370 kr
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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 …
Beginning with Disability
A Primer
Inbunden, 2023
2504 kr
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While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of …
Beginning with Disability
A Primer
Häftad, 2023
631 kr
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While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of …
Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
Ideology and Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
2879 kr
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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is …
Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
Ideology and Fiction
Häftad, 2015
859 kr
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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is …
Disability Studies Reader
Inbunden, 2016
2997 kr
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The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader 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 …
Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing
E-bok
21 kr
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Disability Studies Reader
E-bok, 2016
1445 kr
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The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader 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 …
Disability Studies Reader
E-bok, 2016
1445 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader 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 …
Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
Ideology and Fiction
E-bok, 2014
896 kr
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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is …
Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
Ideology and Fiction
E-bok, 2014
896 kr
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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is …
Poor Things
How Those with Money Depict Those Without It
Inbunden, 2024
1356 kr
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For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading …
Poor Things
How Those with Money Depict Those Without It
Häftad, 2024
343 kr
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For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading …
Poor Things
How Those with Money Depict Those without It
E-bok, 2024
513 kr
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For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading …
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Häftad, 2025
184 kr
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In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of …
