Julie E. Maybee

Making and Unmaking Disability (eBook, ePUB)

The Three-Body Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If the future is accessible, as Alisa Grishman-one of 55 million Americans categorized as having a disability-writes in this book's cover image, then we must stop making or constructing people as disabled and impaired. In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles. Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538127742
• Artikelnr.: 57589429

Autorenporträt

By Julie E. Maybee

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction and
Theoretical Overview Chapter 1: Disability and Capitalism Chapter 2: A New
Structure of Attitudes: Normalcy, Eugenics, the Ugly Laws and Segregation
Chapter 3: The Experience of the Socially Defined Body Chapter 4: The
Socially Defined Body in Society Chapter 5: The Socially Constructed Body
in Biology Chapter 6: Beyond Individual Accommodation Chapter 7:
Diversifying Access, Remaking Worlds Conclusion