Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness
Fiona Kumari Campbell, Griffith University
Palgrave Macmillan, 9780230579286
Examining what the study of disability tells us about the production, operation
and maintenance of ableism, this ambitious study explores the ways 'abled-
ness' is understood, providing new directions in research on 'aberrancy' and
its focus on a normative ethos. Reconfiguring and challenging the disability
studies perspective, this book extends its remit beyond the traditional
concern with social inequalities, exploring the territories of embodiment,
subjectivity, transhumanism, technologies and jurisprudence.
The book uncovers sites of the production of ableism and conversely, sites of
resistance to ableist norms and practices to ask key questions such as what
happens when 'disability' and 'desire' are placed in close proximity? how
does law reinforce negative associations of impairment? how do the media
present the promises of new disability technologies and medical
interventions?
With a Foreword by Dan Goodley this book is a major contribution to our
understanding of able and disabled bodies.
Contents
Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley
PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM
The Project of Ableism
Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within
Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents
Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies
PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM
The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant
Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of
Clint Hallam
Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching & Standpoint
Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence & Ontological
Envelopment
Disability Harm & Wrongful Life Torts
Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and
Transableism
Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?
I am in the process of writing up a plain English study guide for this work.
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