Making and Unmaking Disability - The Three-Body Approach

In this new theoretical approach to disability, Maybee traces societal constructions of human physicality along three dimensions: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles.

List of contents

Series Editor Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction and Theoretical Overview
Chapter 1: Disability and Capitalism
Chapter 2: A New Structure of Attitudes: Normalcy, Eugenics, the Ugly Laws and Segregation
Chapter 3: The Experience of the Socially Defined Body
Chapter 4: The Socially Defined Body in Society
Chapter 5: The Socially Constructed Body in Biology
Chapter 6: Beyond Individual Accommodation
Chapter 7: Diversifying Access, Remaking Worlds
Conclusion

About the author

By Julie E. Maybee

Summary

Julie E. Maybee traces the construction of disability in Western societies using a three-body approach. Through an examination of the history of disability as well as of a variety of interdisciplinary sources, she offers a wide-ranging philosophical analysis of existing discourse while developing a new methodology for ongoing debates.

Product details

• Authors: Julie E. Maybee
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781538127728
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2772-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy; Explorations in Contemporary S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy