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With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton
explores the critical divisions society makes -- the normal versus the
pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state. Map
and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions
of disability and establishes disabled people and allies as the rightful
claimants to this territory.
Buy Claiming
Disability: Knowledge and Identity
Reviews
"Long overdue, Claiming Disability both
carves out a new field of study, and introduces and educates readers
to disability studies as a vibrant space of intellectual work.
Linton weaves in and out of disciplines—queer
studies, traditional educational psychology, literary criticism, critical legal
studies—without a blink. Both precise and expansive, she declares and
defines disability studies in ways that are systematic, theoretically engaging,
and policy-relevant." Michelle Fine, City University of New
York
"Claiming Disability is the most comprehensive
book in disability studies to come along yet. It wisely defines terms
and concepts, linking them to and questioning the dominant issues in
identity politics and multiculturalism, while mapping a direction for
future study. A must-read for anyone seriously thinking about the body
and body politics in the postmodern era." Lennard Davis, author
of Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body
"Provides a broadened and enriched definition of
disability, and its author unfolds a compelling way to evaluate Special
Education."
Laurie R. Lehman, Educators for Urban Minorities
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