Civil Disabilities - Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging

Civil Disabilities presents original essays by leading figures in disabilities studies who reconsider the meaning of citizenship. Working from a variety of disciplines and approaches, the volume explores the possibilities for imagining a more just and inclusive world for disabled persons.

About the author

Nancy J. Hirschmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory and The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom. Beth Linker is Associate Professor in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy J. (EDT)/ Linker Hirschmann, Nancy J. Linker Hirschmann
• Assisted by: Nancy J. Hirschmann (Editor), Beth Linker (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2015
• EAN: 9780812246674
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4667-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Democracy, Citizenship, and Co; Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Democracy, Citizenship, and Co
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research