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Youth and Disability - A Challenge to Mr Reasonable (Paperback)
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Youth and Disability - A Challenge to Mr Reasonable (Paperback)
Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of 'the
reasonable' to explore how normative understandings of youth,
dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality
impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and
disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural
frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of 'youth' and
'disability' been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary,
critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural
concepts of 'youth' and 'disability' alongside one-another, Slater
convincingly demonstrates that 'youth' and 'disability' have been
conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too
long. With chapters focusing on access and youth culture,
independence, autonomy and disabled people's movements, and the
body, gender and sexuality, this volume's intersectional and
transdisciplinary engagement with social theory offers a
significant contribution to existing theoretical and empirical
literature and knowledges around disability and youth. Indeed,
through highlighting the ableism of adulthood and the falsity of
conceptualising youth as a time of becoming-independent-adult, the
need to shift approaches to research around dis/abled youth is one
of the main themes of the book. This book therefore is a
provocation to rethink what is implicit about 'youth' and
'disability'. Moreover, through such an endeavour, this book sits
as a challenge to Mr Reasonable.
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