Disability Studies
New Releases
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Mad at School Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life Margaret Price Foreword by Tobin Siebers Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education 6 x 9. 294 pgs. 10 B&W illustrations; 1 table. 2011
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Viral Mothers Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS Bernice L. Hausman Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises 6 x 9. 220 pgs. 6 tables. 2010
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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a Disability Edward Wheatley Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability 6 x 9. 298 pgs. 3 B &W illustrations. 2010
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The Accidental Teacher
Annie Lubliner Lehmann With a Foreword by Catherine Lord Mom's Choice Award 2009 Silver Recipient: Special and Exceptional Needs A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism 5 x 8. 184 pgs. 2009
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The Songs of Blind Folk
Terry Rowden How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years 6 x 9. 184 pgs. 2009
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Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
Carol Poore Winner: German Studies Association's prize for Best Book of 2007 Winner: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany 6 x 9.25. 432 pgs. 2007
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Signifying Bodies
G. Thomas Couser Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability? 6 x 9. 216 pgs. 2009
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Disability Aesthetics
Tobin Siebers Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments 6 x 9. 192 pgs. 2010
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Best Sellers
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Disability Theory
Tobin Siebers Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies 6 x 9. 240 pgs. 2 illustrations and 2 B and W photographs. 2008
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Award-Winning Books
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The Accidental Teacher
Annie Lubliner Lehmann With a Foreword by Catherine Lord Mom's Choice Award 2009 Silver Recipient: Special and Exceptional Needs A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism 5 x 8. 184 pgs. 2009
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Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
Carol Poore Winner: German Studies Association's prize for Best Book of 2007 Winner: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany 6 x 9.25. 432 pgs. 2007
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Disability Theory
Tobin Siebers Co-Winner: 2009 University of Michigan Press Book Award 6 x 9. 240 pgs. 2 illustrations and 2 B&W photographs. 2008
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