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  • Enforcing Normalcy

    Disability, Deafness, and the Body

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term “normal” as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing

    by Lennard J Davis ...
    Shortly before his father's death, Lennard Davis received a cryptic call from his uncle Abie, who said he had a secret he wanted to tell him one day. When finally revealed, the secret--that Abie himself was Davis's father, via donor insemination--seemed too preposterous to be true. Born before the wide use of such technologies, Davis was filled with doubt about the truth of what this ne'er-do-well ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bending Over Backwards

    Essays on Disability and the Body

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    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 ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Enabling Acts

    The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    The first major behind-the-scenes account of the history, passage, and impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—the landmark moment for disability rightsThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The End of Normal

    Identity in a Biocultural Era

    by Lennard Davis ...
    In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Poor Things

    How Those with Money Depict Those without It

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre “poornography”: distorted narratives ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Obsession

    A History

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)

    Ideology and Fiction

    by Lennard J. Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the dehumanising ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Sonnets: A Novel

    by Lennard J Davis ...
    Will Marlow, a 40-year-old Columbia University professor of Shakespeare, lives comfortably with his wife, Anne, and their two children in a university apartment overlooking Riverside Park, until his sex life begins to assume curious parallels with that of the Bard. A former student, Christopher Johnson, arrives at his doorstep bleeding from a self-inflicted wound; Marlow is smitten by the youth's ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Disability Studies Reader

    Edited by Lennard J. Davis ...
    The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses 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 ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • Shall I Say A Kiss?

    The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938

    Edited by Lennard J. Davis ...
    Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in careful chronological order, that dated from 1936. The letters ended in 1938, when Eva Weintrobe came to America to marry Morris, and they provide the core of Shall I Say A Kiss?, their courtship by correspondence. In his framing comments, Davis speculates that his parents met perhaps ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Beginning with Disability

    A Primer

    Edited by Lennard J. Davis ...
    While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplines—including education, sociology, communications, psychology, social ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD