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Foucault and the Government of Disability
Shelley Tremain
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Description for Foucault and the Government of Disability
Paperback. An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection Editor(s): Tremain, Shelley. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
This revised and expanded edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book's contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education. Now, four new essays extend and elaborate the lines of inquiry by ... Read more
This revised and expanded edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book's contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education. Now, four new essays extend and elaborate the lines of inquiry by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472036387
SKU
V9780472036387
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About Shelley Tremain
Shelley Tremain has a Ph.D. in philosophy from York University, Canada, lectures on Foucault at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada and has published widely on philosophy of disability, Foucault, feminist philosophy, and bioethics.
Reviews for Foucault and the Government of Disability
[A]n important, prescient, and necessary contribution...a kind of litmus test for the efficacy of Foucault's concepts in the study of disability, concepts that lead to a refusal of the biological essentialism implied in the disability/impairment binary. - Foucault Studies Tremain has done an exceptional job at organizing and procuring important, rigorously argued, and entertaining essays.... ... Read more