Disability and difference in global contexts enabling a transformative body politic / [electronic resource] :
Nirmala Erevelles.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xi, 227 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of "Becoming" (Disabled) * 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.
"This book deploys a relational analysis to theorize disability at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within both U.S. and global contexts. Critically engaging post humanist theories of difference this book explores the implications of re-theorizing disability as a materialist construct in the context of global citizenship. The book engages a diversity of theories and topics that include transnational feminist theory, critical race feminism, post humanist and marxist theories of embodiment , special education as the post colonial ghetto, sex educational policies, citizenship and cognitive disability, war and disability, and the dialectical tensions within an ethics of care"--
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Sociology of disability. Disabilities--Philosophy. People with disabilities. Historical materialism.