It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Extraordinary Bodies by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the...
Extraordinary Bodies by Rosemarie Garland Thomson is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Extraordinary Bodies aloud.
Extraordinary Bodies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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