" Points of Contact does what a good anthology should do--explores, informs, and invites to expand."
--Adele Gorelick , Disabilities Studies Quarterly, Summer 2001
— Adele Gorelick, Disabilities Studies Quarterly
"This readable collection of essays, poems, and stories covers such diverse subjects as fetal alcohol syndrome, beauty pageants and freak shoes, the arts, and famous people with disabilities."
--Sally Rosenthall, Disability Resources Monthly, Volume IX, No. 5
— Sally Rosenthall, Disability Resources Monthly
"This is an unconventional sort of scholarly text, in that the majority of the pieces are, in essence, outsider art rather than academic material. The pieces themselves also push all sorts of boundaries of identity and expression."
--Martha Rose, ISIS, Vol. 93: 3 (2002)
— Martha Rose, ISIS
"This is an important book in a series from the University of Michigan Press that is theorizing and historicizing disability in many areas of the critical landscape. Points of Contact is valuable for scholars less familiar with disability studies who wish to acquaint themselves with the art and theory of an emerging field in the humanities, as well as for more established disability studies practitioners. It is a rich source of reading from within disability culture that can be enjoyed for its own sake, and individual pieces can also be easily adapted for introducing a disability perspective into already established courses on literature, drama, performance studies, history, art, and anthropology."
--Modern Drama
— Ann M. Fox, Davidson College, Modern Drama
" Points of Contact does what a good anthology should do--explores, informs, and invites to expand."
--Adele Gorelick , Disabilities Studies Quarterly, Summer 2001
— Adele Gorelick, Disabilities Studies Quarterly
"This readable collection of essays, poems, and stories covers such diverse subjects as fetal alcohol syndrome, beauty pageants and freak shoes, the arts, and famous people with disabilities."
--Sally Rosenthall, Disability Resources Monthly, Volume IX, No. 5
— Sally Rosenthall, Disability Resources Monthly
"This is an unconventional sort of scholarly text, in that the majority of the pieces are, in essence, outsider art rather than academic material. The pieces themselves also push all sorts of boundaries of identity and expression."
--Martha Rose, ISIS, Vol. 93: 3 (2002)
— Martha Rose, ISIS
"This is an important book in a series from the University of Michigan Press that is theorizing and historicizing disability in many areas of the critical landscape. Points of Contact is valuable for scholars less familiar with disability studies who wish to acquaint themselves with the art and theory of an emerging field in the humanities, as well as for more established disability studies practitioners. It is a rich source of reading from within disability culture that can be enjoyed for its own sake, and individual pieces can also be easily adapted for introducing a disability perspective into already established courses on literature, drama, performance studies, history, art, and anthropology."
--Modern Drama
— Ann M. Fox, Davidson College, Modern Drama