March 19, 1999

Whose Field Is It, Anyway? Disability Studies in the Academy

By LEONARD CASSUTO

These are heady times for disability studies. From a grassroots movement that didn't appear on the curricular radar as recently as 10 years ago, a burgeoning constituency has sprung up, along with a journal, several high-profile books, and the kind of academic attention that shows that a field is achieving legitimacy. But disability studies is deliberately following a

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