""Bending Over Backwards" is a welcome dismemberment of all that
was unknowingly artificial from the start."
--"The Minnesota Review"
a[Its] uniqueness of thought is this collectionas strength as it
makes for an interesting and proactive read.a
--American Journal of Occupational Therapy
"Davis's work offers creative and challenging examples that may
be useful to our discipline and particularly to Disability
historians. "Bending Over Backwards" remains an important and
useful work for historians as a template for examining the myriad
ways disability and Deafness infiltrate vital aspects of our
identity, including laws, cultural icons, literature, and
citizenship."
--"H-Net Reviews"
"Taken all together, the chapters offer an important,
theoretically rich introduction to disability issues."
--"Novel"
"It is crucial, if at times uncomfortable, reading for medical
professionals and scholars in the medical humanities alike. . . .
Daring to mix the literary and the medical, the symbolic and the
instrumental, the interpretive and the interventionist, Davis
demonstrates what disability can teach us about the life that
awaits any human baby."
--"Literature and Medicine"
"This superlative book is highly recommended for undergraduates,
scholars, and researchers in the fields of disability studies,
sociology, psychology, anthropology, ethics, and cultural
studies."--"Choice"
"Lennard Davis is history in the making; for he is one of the
foremost proponents of "disability studies," the newest theoretical
kid on the block, noteworthy in part because it brings together
scholars from the humanities and the medical sciences."
--Stanley Fish, in "Chicago Tribune"
aA collection of essays written over several years for different
audiences, it contains fascinating traces of Davisas intellectual
journey from novel theorist and Foucauldian to disability studeis
scholar and memoirist.a--"American Literature"
With 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.
Bending Over Backwards 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.
Bending Over Backwards 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.
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