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xi, 227 p. ; 22 cm "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 "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 Includes bibliographical references and index Machine generated contents note: -- Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of "Becoming" (Disabled) * Of Ghosts and Ghetto

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Author

Nirmala Erevelles

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137001184

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Philosophy, Science