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Contours of ableism The production of disability and abledness /

Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to...

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Main Authors: Campbell, Fiona Kumari
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Discrimination against people with disabilities
People with disabilities > Psychology
People with disabilities in mass media
Social welfare & social services
Personal & social issues: disability & special needs Children's/YA
Disability: social aspects
Social Discrimination
Personal & social issues: body & health Children's/YA
Society
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230245181
Summary: Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 240 p. : 1 b&w, ill., 2 diagrames.
ISBN: 9780230579286
9780230245181 :
0230245188 :
CLC: D771.186.9
Contents: Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM The Project of Ableism Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching & Standpoint Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence & Ontological Envelopment Disability Harm & Wrongful Life Torts Searching for Subjectivity: The

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