August 5, 2014
Heather Laine Talley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. Her new book, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance, examines the cultural meaning of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined… READ MORE
October 21, 2013
—Ruth Colker Blaming the mother is a long-standing cultural tradition in the United States. In the best-selling book, The Generation of Vipers, Philip Wylie invented the name “momism” in 1942… READ MORE
June 26, 2013
—Ruth Colker Raised in a Spanish-speaking household, Peter learned to speak English at age two while recuperating from a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite… READ MORE
August 13, 2010
NYU Press is saddened by the passing of Dr. Paul Longmore, a pioneering scholar and advocate in the disability rights community. Dr. Longmore was the co-editor of an NYU Press… READ MORE
January 28, 2009
The New York Times City Section did a brief Q&A with Susan Schweik, the author of the forthcoming Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (NYU Press 2009 / History of Disability… READ MORE
December 5, 2008
Macleans did an excellent write up about the issues raised in After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU 2008) by Emily Abel and Saskia Subramanian …. READ MORE