Contours of Ableism [electronic resource] : The Production of Disability and Abledness /
Campbell, F.author.
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'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Part 1. Cogitating Ableism. 1. The Project of Ableism -- 2. Internalised Ableism: The Tyranny Within -- 3. Tentative Disability - Mitigation and Its Discontents -- 4. Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies -- Part 2. Spectres of Ableism. 5. The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant -- 6. Print Media Representations of the 'Uncooperative' Disabled Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam -- 7. Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching and Standpoint -- 8. Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence and Ontological Envelopment -- 9. Disability Harm and Wrongful Life Torts -- 10. Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism -- Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
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.