Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front) - Softcover

Linton, Simi

 
9780814751343: Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814751342 ISBN 13: 9780814751343
Verlag: New York University, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning
From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.
Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton explores the divisions society creates-the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state.
Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simi Linton is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Division of Education at Hunter College.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814751342
ISBN 13 
9780814751343
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
203
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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