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Obsession: A History by Lennard J. Davis
Booksplease Price: €21.05We 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... -
The Sonnets: A Novel by Lennard J. Davis 9780791449776
RRP: €22.02Booksplease Price: €18.42In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor's life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets.What if Shakespeare found himself... -
Obsession: A History by Lennard J. Davis 9780226137827
Booksplease Price: €48.84We 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... -
Beginning with Disability: A Primer by Lennard J. Davis 9781032596198
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.55While 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... -
The Disability Studies Reader Lennard J. Davis 9781138930230
RRP: €96.38Booksplease Price: €85.01The 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... -
Resisting Novels: Ideology and Fiction by Lennard J. Davis
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29"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,... -
Resisting Novels Ideology and Fiction by Lennard J Davis 9780343298296
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €34.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780343298296Author Lennard J DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Franklin ClassicsPublisher... -
Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel by Lennard J. Davis
Booksplease Price: €34.53"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real..... -
Left Politics and the Literary Profession by Lennard J. Davis 9780231065665
RRP: €159.46Booksplease Price: €126.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLennard J. Davis is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of several... -
My Sense of Silence: MEMOIRS OF A CHILDHOOD WITH DEAFNESS by Lennard J. Davis
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.61Selected as an "Editors Choice" by the Chicago Tribune Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and... -
The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era by Lennard J. Davis 9780472052028
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.73In 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... -
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J Davis 9781836740292
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40In 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... -
The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era by Lennard J. Davis 9780472072026
Booksplease Price: €85.62In 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... -
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body by Lennard J. Davis 9780814719503
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.01With 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... -
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body by Lennard J. Davis 9780814719497
Booksplease Price: €107.78With 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... -
Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It Lennard J. Davis 9781478031024
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71For 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... -
Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It Lennard J. Davis 9781478026747
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €81.30For 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... -
Culture Theory Disability: Encounters Between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies by Anne Waldschmidt 9783837625332
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.21Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more... -
Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories by Bella Mirabella 9780472051175
Booksplease Price: €48.59Ornamentalism is the first book to focus on Renaissance accessories,their histories and meanings. The collection's eminent contributorsbring accessories to the center of a discussion about material... -
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature by H-Dirksen L. Bauman
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The... -
Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking by H-Dirksen L. Bauman
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.21This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your... -
Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights by Linda Hamilton Krieger 9780472068258
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €32.89For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly... -
Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies Elizabeth DePoy (University of Maine, USA) 9781138601161
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.62Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label... -
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson 9780231139038
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of... -
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition by Benjamin Fraser 9781846318702
Booksplease Price: €47.36An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.98Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 9781517909130
RRP: €103.53Booksplease Price: €83.74Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the... -
Health Humanities Reader by Mark Vonnegut 9780813562469
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €58.66Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic... -
Disability and Art History Ann Millett-Gallant (University of North Carolina, USA) 9780815392132
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and... -
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body... -
Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €43.90Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between... -
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller by Kim E. Nielsen 9780814758144
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the... -
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller by Kim E. Nielsen 9780814758137
RRP: €74.97Booksplease Price: €61.42A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the... -
Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer 9780822351405
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.90The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory,... -
Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.51The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory,...