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Claiming disability : knowledge and identity / Simi Linton ; foreward [i.e. foreword] by Michael Bérubé

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural front (Series)Publication details: New York : New York University Press, 1998Description: xv, 203 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0814751334 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 9780814751336 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 0814751342 (paper : acidfree paper)
  • 9780814751343 (paper : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV1568.2 .L55 1998
Online resources: Summary: Disabled people have emerged from the shadows and back rooms of our institutions, upping the ante on demands for an inclusive society. Claiming Disability captures this moment in the first comprehensive examination of disability studies as a field of inquiry. Arguing that disability studies takes for its subject matter not simply the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing, but the meaning we make of those variations, this work offers both a passionate challenge to status quo definitions of disability and a methodology for reexamining it
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index

Disabled people have emerged from the shadows and back rooms of our institutions, upping the ante on demands for an inclusive society. Claiming Disability captures this moment in the first comprehensive examination of disability studies as a field of inquiry. Arguing that disability studies takes for its subject matter not simply the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing, but the meaning we make of those variations, this work offers both a passionate challenge to status quo definitions of disability and a methodology for reexamining it

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