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Margaret Price's Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

I just started reading Margaret Price’s Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.   It came out a few weeks ago and I quickly ordered a copy on Amazon after a professor at Haverford who specializes in disability studies suggested that it would be an interesting read for my independent study.  Price is a professor of English at Spelman College and is interested in expanding disability studies to include those with mental disabilities or what she also calls “psychosocial disability” (a term she likes because "it bumps psych (soul) against social context", br

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