Youth and disability : a challenge to Mr Reasonable / Jenny Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slater, Jenny, author.

Series:

Interdisciplinary disability studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth with disabilities.

Sociology of disability--Research.

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

152 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Contents:

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction: theoretical perspectives

Disabled people in (neo)liberal times (or, disability as unreasonable)

Youth as border zone, disability and disposability (or, challenging youth as becoming-reasonable adult)

The making of un/reasonable bodies at the border zone of youth

From adulthood independence to continuing relational autonomy

Negotiating space & constituting "problems" : access at the border zone of youth

Dis/abled youth, bodies, femininity and sexuality : having difficult conversations

The limits of "sameness" : goodbye mr reasonable

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472428516

147242851X

OCLC:

893857961