Disability and difference in global contexts : enabling a transformative body politic / Nirmala Erevelles.

"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 material...

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Main Author: Erevelles, Nirmala, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher.
"This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 227 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137001184
1137001186
1283381842
9781283381840
9786613381842
6613381845
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.