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Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Spectres of Ableism
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Front Matter
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Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
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FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Human Services& Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contours of Ableism
Book Subtitle: The Production of Disability and Abledness
Authors: Fiona Kumari Campbell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245181
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57928-6Published: 16 September 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24518-1Published: 16 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 231
Topics: Social Policy, Sociology of Education, Medical Sociology, Social Work and Community Development, Sociology of the Body, Sociology, general