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Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality / by M. Shildrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shildrick, Margrit.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- Sex.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Sociology.
- Personality.
- Difference (Psychology).
- Engineering.
- Social Policy.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Personality and Differential Psychology.
- Technology and Engineering.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Policy.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Sociology.
- Personality and Differential Psychology.
- Technology and Engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Corporealities; 2 Genealogies; 3 Contested Pleasures and Governmentality; 4 Sexuality, Subjectivity and Anxiety; 5 Transgressing the Law; 6 Queer Pleasures; 7 Global Corporealities; Conclusion: Thinking Differently; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612671708
- 9781282671706
- 1282671707
- 9780230244641
- 0230244645
- OCLC:
- 497765425
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