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Contours of Ableism The Production of Disability and Abledness /

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...

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Main Author: Campbell, F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245181
Summary: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'.
Physical Description:XIV, 231 p. online resource.
ISBN:9780230245181

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