{"product_id":"bending-over-backwards-lennard-j-davis-9780814719503","title":"Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBending Over Backwards\u003c\/b\u003e reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBending Over Backwards\u003c\/b\u003e argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lennard J. Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814719503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814719503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.36w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2003 pg. 1020","brand":"Lennard J. Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926442868991,"sku":"9780814719503","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_96724a28-e245-4a50-8183-f68a6c2a9147.jpg?v=1681083108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bending-over-backwards-lennard-j-davis-9780814719503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}