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order.
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Eiesland,
Nancy.
The Disabled
God:
Nashville:
Theology ofDisability.
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Riis, Thomas
InTHE LASTTENYEARS,DISABILITYSTUDIES
has become
a major
of theGods?
Twilight
LENNARD
J.DAVIS
will discuss
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ofMan, which
of Criticism
launched structuralism
in the
United
may question
ism as a meaningful concept" (ix). Indeed, it
doesn't take long for happening ideas to have
It is true that structuralism as such
happened.
had itsbirth in France in themid-1950s, so the
arc of inception, publicity, circulation, contro
versy, internal disagreements, and eventually
death lasted about twenty years.
waiting
common
sights become obvious and therefore
sense?the desired goal of all research and in
quiry, yet a goal whose achievement paradoxi
are the
cally spells subsequent demise? What
cultural and social liminal requirements that
might make disability studies unnecessary?
That is,will disability studies melt away like
the dictatorship of the proletariat?
search,
of Amazon.com,
comes
up
how we
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model
while
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the University
universal
model
on Disability
and
inalienable.
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If some
disabled
Americans
called Deaf
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on Disability
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the University
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illnesses whose
gene analysis
indicates that theymay develop a disease?
My point is that the next wave of disabil
disabilities
the foundational
my position
move would
questioning
identity politics?the
of the validity of race, the notion of a gender
continuum
rather
than
a masculine-feminine
divide,
by a second-wave
white
distinct
orientation,
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a careful reexamination.
I would
on Disability
Studies
who
to be careful
venture to
and
conditions.
This
approach
also
ad
well
the mass
media.
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532
most
orthodoxy. Disability
I hope, will continue
to be?an
open-ended
of
the
investigation
negotiations and domina
tions between power and the body, between
to those codes.
with disabilities
that physician-assisted
murder;
that cochlear
words
and
suicide is equivalent to
implants are inevitably
that disability
always be mindful
studies isn't an inquiry in an
nected
Note
1
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Work Cited
Macksey, Richard,
tween?1971."
The
Ed.
Languages
of Criticism and the Sciences ofMan.
1970. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Macksey and Donato.
UP, 1972. ix-xiii.