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author	Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
title	Bending over backwards : disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions / Lennard J. Davis ; with a foreword by Michael Berube.
published	New York : New York University Press, c2002.
description	xii, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
series note	( Cultural front)
series	Cultural front (Series)
all locations	Availability
location	UMBC Library Stacks | HV1553 .D38 2002 Holdings  Availability
notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
contents	The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism -- On disability as an unstable category -- Crips strike back -- The rise of disability studies -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability -- Criminal statements -- Homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt eighteenth century shipwrecked sailor -- Who put the The in the novel? -- Identity politics and disability in novel studies -- The rule of normalcy -- Politics and disability in
	the USA (United States of Ability) -- Bending over backwards -- Narcissism, the ADA, and the courts -- Go to the margins of the class -- Disability and hate crimes -- A voyage out (or is it back?) -- Class and disability in my life.
subjects	People with disabilities -- United States.
	Sociology of disability -- United States.
	Disability studies -- United States.
format	Book
ISBN	081471949X (cloth : alk. paper)
	0814719503 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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