The Disability Studies Reader

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    The concept of the barrier-free utopia. ... Practicality and resource constraints make it unfeasible to overcome every barrier: for example, ... When Michael Oliver claims that An aeroplane is THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY | 219.

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder have seen this analogical treatment of disability as a “narrative prosthesis” by which a disabled character serves as a crutch to shore up normalcy somewhere else.18 The disabled character is prosthetic ...

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    More elaborate versions have since appeared in print, at sites as diverse as the Brooklyn waiting room of a school board Committee on Special Education and the back of a newsletter for parents of disabled children. 6.

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    Her research focuses on representations of the disabled body in art and visual culture, and her book, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (2010) is the first to cross the disciplines of art history and disability studies.

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective.

  • The Disability Studies Reader
    By Lennard J. Davis

    ... (2011) The State of the States in Developmental Disabilities 2011. Boulder: University of Colorado, Department of Psychiatry and Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. Brief of the American Association on Mental Retardation et al ...