Disability and difference in global contexts : enabling a transformative body politic / Nirmala Erevelles.

Author/Creator:

Erevelles, Nirmala, 1965-

Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages.)

Subjects:

Sociology of disability.
Disabilities -- Philosophy.
People with disabilities.
Historical materialism.

Medical subjects:

Disabled Persons -- psychology.
Social Isolation.
Cost of Illness.
Internationality.
Sociology.
Philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction: bodies that do not matter
Disability as "Becoming": notes on the political economy of the flesh
Of ghosts and ghetto politics: embodying education policy as if disability mattered
"Unspeakable" offenses: disability studies at the intersection of multiple differences (with Andrea Minear)
Embodied antimonies: feminist disability studies meets Third World feminism
(Im)Material citizens: cognitive disability, race, and the politics of citizenship
The "Other" side of the dialectic: towards a materialist ethic of care.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

ISBN:

9781137001184 (electronic bk.)
1137001186 (electronic bk.)
9780230100183
023010018X

Publisher Number:

99984040307

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

Connect to full text
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2517380

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