Disability theory / Tobin Siebers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siebers, Tobin.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Corporealities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

Sociology of disability.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

People with disabilities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, Disability Theory revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argues that disability studies transfigures basic assumptions about identity, ideology, language, politics, social oppression, and the body. At the same time, he advances the emerging field of disability studies by putting its core issues into contact with signal thinkers in cultural studies, literary theory, queer theory, gender studies, and critical race theory.

Contents:

Introduction

Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics

Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body

Disability studies and the future of identity politics

Disability as masquerade

Disability experience on trial

A sexual culture for disabled people

Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien

Disability and the right to have rights

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0472070398

0472050397

9780472122226

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.309723

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.