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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818581803321

Autore

Campbell F

Titolo

Contours of Ableism : The Production of Disability and Abledness / / by F. Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-67204-5

9786612672040

0-230-24518-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

305.908

362.4

Soggetti

Social policy

Educational sociology

Social medicine

Social service

Human body—Social aspects

Sociology

Social Policy

Sociology of Education

Medical Sociology

Social Work and Community Development

Sociology of the Body

Sociology, 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

Part 1. Cogitating Ableism. 1. The Project of Ableism -- 2. Internalised Ableism: The Tyranny Within -- 3. Tentative Disability - Mitigation and Its Discontents -- 4. Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies -- Part 2. Spectres of Ableism. 5. The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant -- 6. Print Media Representations of the 'Uncooperative' Disabled Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam -- 7. Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching and Standpoint -- 8.



Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence and Ontological Envelopment -- 9. Disability Harm and Wrongful Life Torts -- 10. Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism -- Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.