The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The fifth edition ofThe Disability Studies Readeraddresses 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 the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues theReader'stradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical. | The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis, Paperback | Indigo Chapters