Female Forms
Subtitle: Experiencing and Understanding Disability (Disability, Human Rights, and Society)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780335196937
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Public health & preventive medicine; Women's studies; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy; Handicapped; Women's Studies - General; Disability studies; Feminist theory; Great Britain; Women with disabilities; Sociology
First sentence: When socially disadvantaged individuals and groups to whom a label such as 'disabled' has been applied begin to unsettle the status quo by demanding social justice and equality, the terms which have been unquestioningly used come to be critically scrutinized by those so labelled, and are either rejected or 'owned' but radically redefined.