While I agree with Miles on what he says about Oedipus, I must point out
that disability studies in the US is much older than what he says. In 1982
when says that disability studies in the US was just beginning, Disability
Studies Quarterly published its first issue. In 1983 I taught my first
course which was all about disability studies. Many of us had been
including disability studies material in our other courses for a decade. I
had been doing it for two decades (having taught my first class in
political science in 1956). Why Stiker does not cite disability studies
work from the US I do not know. I have just reviewed a manuscript by a
well know UK disability studies scholar who cited very little from the US.
I can only assume that US work in disability studies does not get into
bibliographical bases in Europe (and elsewhere) and therefore does not
come up in searches. I have 721 disability studies citations published
before 1980 in my bibliographic files on my pc most of them from
the US with a good number from the UK.....David Pfeiffer
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David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Resident Scholar
Center on Disability Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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It's not over until it's over....Yogi Berra
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