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Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions

Name: Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
Author: Dan Goodley
ISBN: 9781137022998

by Dan Goodley (Editor), Bill Hughes (Editor), Lennard Davis (Editor)

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Overview

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.

About the Author, Dan Goodley

DAN GOODLEY Professor of Disability Studies and Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research and teaching aims to shake up dominant myths in psychology as well as contributing, in some small way, to the development of critical disability studies theories that understand and eradicate disablism. Recent publications include Psychology and Disability (co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom) and Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction.
BILL HUGHES Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He is co-author of The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction and a member of the Editorial Board of Disability & Society.
LENNARD DAVIES Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Departments of Disability and Human Development, English, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois, USA. He is the author of Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, Bending Over Backwards: Disability and Other Difficult Positions, and Obsession: A History.