Claiming disability
Subtitle: knowledge and identity
By: Simi Linton ; foreward [sic] by Michael Bérubé.
Series: Cultural front; Cultural front (Series)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Disability studies; Sociology of disability
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.