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Claiming Disability - Knowledge and Identity (Paperback, New)
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Claiming Disability - Knowledge and Identity (Paperback, New)
Series: Cultural Front
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A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that
presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public
transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the
social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the
passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a
remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has
followed in this wake. Claiming Disability is the first
comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of
inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that
exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity,
and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those
variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton
explores the divisions society creates-the normal versus the
pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state.
Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized
versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their
allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.
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