Cultural Locations of Disability
Author | : Sharon L. Snyder |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-05-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 0226767310 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780226767314 |
Rating | : 4/5 (314 Downloads) |
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.