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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813198403321

Autore

Shildrick Margrit

Titolo

Dangerous discourses of disability, subjectivity and sexuality / / Margrit Shildrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

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

305.9/08

Soggetti

People with disabilities

Marginality, Social

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.