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Dangerous discourses of disability, subjectivity and sexuality / Margrit Shildrick

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

Online-Ressource (vii, 215 p)

Englisch

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality

978-0-230-21056-1 (alk. paper)

978-0-230-21056-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2010

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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LOC-SH: Marginality, Social ; People with disabilities ; Science (General)

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