Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Politicizing bodily differences -- Constructing disabled figures : cultural and literary sites -- Benevolent maternalism and the disabled women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps -- Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde -- Conclusion: From pathology to identity.
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"Extraordinary 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 added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability."--Provided by publisher.
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Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature.
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Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.