Abstract
Book abstract: This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines disability from a theoretical perspective. Each chapter challenges dominant biological, individualistic and psychological views of disability, drawing on one or two theories (and theorists) to advance a sustained analysis of disability, impairment and society. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with other transformative ideas around sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality and nation, engaging with ideas from poststructuralism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, Marxism, feminisms and queer theory to recast disabled bodies-and-minds as psychosocial, cultural and political phenomena.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions |
| Editors | D. Goodley, B. Hughes, L. Davis |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 17-32 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-230-24325-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- disability
- sociology