Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body

by Lennard J. Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814719503
• ISBN13: 9780814719503
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"