Description
About the Author
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor of English at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look (2009) and the editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).
Reviews
Extraordinary Bodies addresses a subject of great significance and topicality with originality and sophistication; it is, or should become, a seminal work in the emerging field of disability studies. -- G. Thomas Couser MELUS [Thomson] digs deep and offers profound insights into the interrelationships among the theories, practices, and dominant ideologies of a particular historical period as they have had an impact on the position of disabled people. -- Simi Linton SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE & SOCIETY Fascinating and theoretically rich... Extraordinary Bodies will... be viewed as one of [disability studies'] foundational texts. -- Anthony Hutchison Journal of American Studies With this important work, Thomson not only redefines disability studies, but also makes a contribution to feminist, poststructuralist, and race theory and provides fresh rereadings of both canonical and non-canonical literary texts. -- Joyce Huff COLLEGE LITERATURE [A]n adventurous, sensible, passionate book that invites readers to rethink the ground-breaking work of theorists who have shaped academic discourse on marginality and the female body. -- Catherine J. Kudlick Journal of Social History
Book Information
ISBN 9780231183161
Author Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press