Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality

by Margrit Shildrick

Book Overview

This innovative and adventurous work uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. Margrit Shildrick argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary, and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230210562
• ISBN13: 9780230210561
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"