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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797187903321

Autore

Simplican Stacy Clifford

Titolo

Capacity Contract [[electronic resource] ] : Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2015

ISBN

1-4529-4422-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

323.32

Soggetti

Cognition disorders -- Political aspects

People with mental disabilities -- Civil rights

People with mental disabilities -- Political activity

Political rights

People with mental disabilities - Civil rights

People with mental disabilities - Political activity

Cognition disorders - Political aspects

Political participation

Citizenship

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability""; ""1. Locke�s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy""; ""2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect""; ""3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory""; ""4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement""; ""5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""

""S""""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV><P>Contents</P><P>Abbreviations<BR />Introduction:



Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability<BR />1. Locke's Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy<BR />2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect<BR />3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory<BR />4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement<BR />5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered<BR />Acknowledgments<BR />Notes<BR />Index<BR /></P></DIV>