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controversial adjective arguable, at issue, at odds, at variance, confutable, contestable, controversus, debatable, dialectic, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eristic, exhibiting pros and cons, factious, in dissute, in question, not axiomatic, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to question, polemical, problematical, refutable, speculative, suspect, uncertain, undecided, under inquiry, unsure, unverifiable See also: arguable, contestable, debatable, disputable, disputant, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, forensic, litigable, litigant, litigious, moot, party, polemic How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The potential controversiality of this work lies not so much in its claim of the cultural constructedness of disability as in its claim of the centrality of disability to American "self-making," for until very recently disability has been the form of marginalization most marginalized in the academy. Fiske (1959b) found that, though nearly half the people interviewed expressed "unequivocal freedom-to-read convictions" and only a few believed that controversiality should be taken into account when making book selection decisions, in reality nearly two-thirds of the respondents had practiced self-censorship at one time or another, and of these nearly one-fifth habitually avoided controversial material altogether (p. It carefully compiles and chronologically arranges the Giovanni interviews and interview essays that have accumulated over more than two decades, revealing the popularity, complexity, and controversiality of a constantly growing and transforming thinker, social and political interpreter/critic, and artist/critic. |
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