Cultural locations of disability
By: Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, David T., 1962-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Sociology of disability.; People with disabilities -- Social conditions.; People with disabilities -- Government policy.; People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Description: Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. The author reveals cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.