Youth and Disability - A Challenge to Mr Reasonable

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of 'the reasonable' to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of 'youth' and 'disability' been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of 'youth' and 'disability' alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that 'youth' and 'disability' have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long.

List of contents

Introduction Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1 Disabled People in (Neo)liberal Times (or, Disability as Unreasonable); Chapter 2 Youth as Border Zone, Disability and Disposability (or, Challenging Youth as Becoming-Reasonable Adult); Chapter 3 The Making of Un/Reasonable Bodies at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 4 From Adulthood Independence to Continuing Relational Autonomy; Chapter 5 Negotiating Space and Constituting 'Problems': Access at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 6 Dis/abled Youth, Bodies, Femininity and Sexuality:Having Difficult Conversations; Chapter 7 The Limits of 'Sameness': Goodbye Mr Reasonable;

About the author

Jenny Slater is Lecturer in Education and Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Slater, Slater Jenny
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2017
• EAN: 9780815392163
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9216-3
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Learning Disabilities, Disability: social aspects, Age groups: adolescents, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability