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Claiming disability : knowledge and identity

Author: Simi Linton
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 1998.
Series: Cultural front (Series)
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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,  Read more...
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Title: Claiming disability : knowledge and identity /
Database Name: WorldCat
All Authors / Contributors: Simi Linton
ISBN: 0814751334 (cloth : acid-free paper); 9780814751336 (cloth : acid-free paper); 0814751342 (paper : acid-free paper); 9780814751343 (paper : acid-free paper)
Notes: Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.
Description: xv, 203 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Simi Linton ; foreward [i.e. foreword] by Michael Bérubé.
Year: 1998.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press,
Standard Numbers: LCCN: 97021218
Class Descriptors: LC Class No.: HV1568.2; Dewey No.: 305.9/0816
Series: Cultural front; Variation: Cultural front (Series)
OCLC No.: 37379821

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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.
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"Long overdue, Claiming Disability both carves out a new field of study, and introduces and educates readers to disability studies as a vibrant space of intellectual work. Linton weaves in and out of Read more...

 
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