{"product_id":"points-of-contact-susan-crutchfield-9780472067114","title":"Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture","description":"\u003ci\u003ePoints of Contact\u003c\/i\u003e 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 arts. The contributions include essays and memoirs by a wide range of disabled and nondisabled writers, including Bell Gale Chevigny, Sandra Gilbert, Joseph Grigely, Georgina Kleege, Victoria Ann Lewis, Carol Poore, Tobin Siebers, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson among others; poetry by Brooke Horvath, Joan Seliger Sidney, William Stafford, and others; fiction by Stephen Dixon, Michael Downs, Georgina Kleege, Dallas Wiebe, and others.\u003cbr\u003eThe collection covers a broad range of subjects and concerns that lie at the intersection of disability and the arts, including fetal alcohol syndrome, education, and identity; representations of disability in the visual arts and the complicated position of the disabled spectator; the impact of cancer on the patient and the caregiver; the similarities between beauty pageants and freak shows; Alzheimer's disease; prosthetic devices; the mechanized disabled body; disability and performance; and profiles of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, Christopher Reeve, Franklin Roosevelt, and sado-masochistic performance artist Bob Flanagan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoints of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published as a special double issue of the well regarded literary magazine, the \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Now available in a single, convenient paperback volume, its broad range of perspectives on disability and its entertaining and engaging selections will appeal to general readers, scholars, and students alike.\u003cbr\u003eSusan Crutchfield is lecturer in English, University of Michigan. Marcy Epstein teaches literature at The Roeper School and women's studies at Henry Ford Community College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Crutchfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472067117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472067114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.01w x 1.00d","brand":"Susan Crutchfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994107478271,"sku":"9780472067114","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbd7d194-7675-4b98-81c5-2e67d72fc89a.jpg?v=1683328168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/points-of-contact-susan-crutchfield-9780472067114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}