Cultural Locations of Disability

Cultural Locations of Disability
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0226767310
ISBN-13 : 9780226767314
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Book Synopsis Cultural Locations of Disability by : Sharon L. Snyder

Download or read book Cultural Locations of Disability written by Sharon L. Snyder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. The author reveals cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy.


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