num_pages: 360
description: This comprehensive interdisciplinary collection examines disability from a theoretical perspective. Each chapter challenges dominant biological individualistic and psychological views of disability drawing on one or two theories (and theorists) to advance a sustained analysis of disability impairment and society. Throughout social theories of disability intersect with other transformative ideas around sex/gender race/ethnicity class sexuality and nation engaging with ideas from poststructuralism phenomenology psychoanalysis postcolonialism Marxism feminisms and queer theory to recast disabled bodies-and-minds as psychosocial cultural and political phenomena. The book includes contributions from established writers as well as new emerging and exciting scholars in the field of critical disability studies with authors writing from a host of disciplines including legal studies psychology sociology development studies dance education philosophy and women's studies. Through its detailed analysis of the conditions of disablism the text also argues for the celebration of more affirmative views of impairment disability and disabled identities. 
language: English
title: Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan