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Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Booksplease Price: €107.78From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the... -
Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 9780195326802
Booksplease Price: €45.52From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The... -
Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 9780197691137
Booksplease Price: €28.20The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work... -
Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 9780197691120
Booksplease Price: €106.10The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work... -
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson 9780231183178
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book... -
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson 9780231183161
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book... -
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies: Volume 1 by Katie Ellis
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers... -
Beginning with Disability: A Primer by Lennard J. Davis 9781032596198
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.56While 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... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2 by Katie Ellis 9780367663278
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?... -
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World by Richard H. Godden 9783030254575
RRP: €142.79Booksplease Price: €133.42This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "disability" and "monstrosity" in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies... -
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times by Peter Catapano
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.51Boldly claiming a space where people with disabilities tell the stories of their own lives-not other's stories about them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been... -
How to Read Hegel Now Shannon Hoff 9780226847078
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.37A powerful exploration of how Hegel’s ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously replete with seemingly... -
Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture by Katarzyna Ojrzyńska 9789004471436
Booksplease Price: €58.60Disability and Dissensus is a comprehensive collection of essays that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of critical cultural disability studies. The volume offers a selection of texts by numerous... -
Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare Grace McCarthy 9780367756499
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €49.35Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey's male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and... -
Museums, Moralities and Human Rights Richard Sandell 9781138232013
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate within which human... -
Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture by Martha Stoddard Holmes 9780472068418
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €25.61This book reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver - what underlies nineteenth-century British... -
Plough Quarterly No. 41 – Freedom: UK Edition by Peter Mommsen 9780874861068
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07In an election season, all political parties claim to champion freedom, which highlights the very different ways people think about what it means to be free. This issue of Plough Quarterly explores... -
Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, Access, and Reception by Katie Ellis
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television... -
Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum by Richard Sandell 9780415494731
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing... -
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote by Thomas Fahy 9780230120983
Booksplease Price: €55.76This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why?... -
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... -
How to Read Hegel Now Shannon Hoff 9780226847085
Booksplease Price: €31.75A powerful exploration of how Hegel's ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously replete with seemingly... -
Museums, Equality and Social Justice by Richard Sandell 9780415504690
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.68The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments - both moral and... -
Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music by Joseph N. Straus 9780199766468
Booksplease Price: €53.59Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with... -
Girls with Autism Becoming Women by Heather Stone Wodis
Booksplease Price: €21.06This insightful book investigates the experiences of seven women with autism as they transition from childhood to adulthood, and how they make sense of that journey.Taken from the autobiographies of... -
Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music by Joseph N. Straus 9780199766451
Booksplease Price: €108.14Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with... -
More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege 9780190604363
Booksplease Price: €47.83In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more... -
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability Liz Bowen 9780197625712
Booksplease Price: €17.70Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise... -
Points of Contact: Disability, Art and Culture by Susan Crutchfield 9780472067114
RRP: €30.88Booksplease Price: €29.76Points of Contact brings together contributions by leading writers, artists, scholars, and critics to provide a remarkably broad and consistently engaging look at the intersection of disability and... -
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability by Liz Bowen 9780197625705
Booksplease Price: €105.74Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise... -
The Promise and Peril of CRISPR by Neal Baer 9781421449302
RRP: €45.82Booksplease Price: €34.24A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far... -
Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism Amanda Cachia 9781526187888
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.78Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where health and care are being taken into their own hands and... -
Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism Amanda Cachia 9781526187864
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €89.85Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where health and care are being taken into their own hands and... -
Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show by Jim Ferris 9780230610668
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €42.05Staging Stigma is a captivating excursion into the bizarre world of the American freak show. Chemers critically examines several key moments of a performance tradition in which the truth is often... -
Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification by Professor of Philosophy Licia Carlson
RRP: €88.06Booksplease Price: €85.17Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience. Music can be a source of self-knowledge and self-expression, and hence reveal important... -
Home Bound: Growing Up with a Disability by Cass Irvin 9781592132201
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71"When I was growing up, I learned that if you were a girl you went to school and college, then you married, became a wife and had a family. . . . When I became disabled, my journey, I was pretty... -
Home Bound: Growing Up With A Disability by Cass Irvin 9781592132195
RRP: €72.59Booksplease Price: €69.31"When I was growing up, I learned that if you were a girl you went to school and college, then you married, became a wife and had a family. . . . When I became disabled, my journey, I was pretty... -
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €79.09In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use... -
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed 9781478006503
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use...