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Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality
Margrit Shildrick
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Description for Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality
Hardback. This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 380.
This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.
This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230210561
SKU
V9780230210561
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About Margrit Shildrick
MARGRIT SHILDRICK is Reader in Gender Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK and Adjunct Professor of the Critical Disability Studies program, York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Leaky Bodies and Boundaries and Embodying the Monster, and co-editor of several books including Ethics of the Body.
Reviews for Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality
“Margrit Shildrick’s Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality marks a welcome, needed, and challenging contribution. … scholars from multiple disciplines interested in critical disability studies—from English to gender and sexuality studies and from sociology to bioethics—will find it insightful and provocative.” (Joel Michael Reynolds, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 11 (1), 2018)