Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality

Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality

Margrit Shildrick

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Violencia en la sociedad
ISBN:
9780230210561

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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.

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