Disability theory
Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, Disability Theory revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argues that disability studies transfigures basic assumptions about identity, ideology, language, politics, social oppression, and the body. At the same time, he advances the emerging field of disability studies by putting its co…
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- Full title :Disability theory / Tobin Siebers.
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Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, Disability Theory revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argues that disability studies transfigures basic assumptions about identity, ideology, language, politics, social oppression, and the body. At the same time, he advances the emerging field of disability studies by putting its core issues into contact with signal thinkers in cultural studies, literary theory, queer theory, gender studies, and critical race theory.
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- Publication Date:©2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication:Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008
The Physical Object
- Description:231 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780472070398, 0472070398, 9780472050390, 0472050397
- oclc:ocn186348470
- LC Classification:HV1568.2
- Dewey Decimal:305.9/08
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics -- Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics -- Disability as masquerade -- Disability experience on trial -- A sexual culture for disabled people -- Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien -- Disability and the right to have rights -- Conclusion.
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