Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality [[electronic resource] /] / by M. Shildrick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785060703321
• Autore: Shildrick M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• ISBN: 9780230244641; 1-282-67170-7; 9786612671708; 0-230-24464-5; 1-349-30312-7; 0-230-21056-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.908; 362.4
• Soggetti: Social policy; Sociology; Human body—Social aspects; Personality; Social psychology; Popular works; Social Policy; Gender Studies; Sociology of the Body; Sociology, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Popular Science, general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Corporealities; 2 Genealogies; 3 Contested Pleasures and Governmentality; 4 Sexuality, Subjectivity and Anxiety; 5 Transgressing the Law; 6 Queer Pleasures; 7 ; Global Corporealities; Conclusion: Thinking Differently; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.