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Andrea J. Pitts Reviews My Book

September 29, 2020 By shelleytremain

Andrea Pitts has written a wonderful review of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Andrea’s review appears in a special issue of CJDS devoted to transinstitutionalism. The Table of Contents for the special issue is here: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/33

You can find Andrea Pitts’s review of my book here: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/651/910

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