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Neurodiversity: the birth of an idea

By Judy Singer

Book information

Publisher
Judy Singer
Year
2016
ISBN
064815470X, 9780648154709
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18250303 bytes)
Pages
\63
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2022-11-30 00:26:23
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Description

The work attempted a panoramic view of this new terrain from within a post-modern, social constructionist, feminist, disability rights perspective. Its chapters encompassed a brief history of autism, self-exploration of Singer’s life in the middle of three generations of women “somewhere on the autistic spectrum” and her research as a participant-observer on InLv, an online community of people on the spectrum. At the same time it offered a critique of what Singer perceived to be a certain tendency towards social-constructionist fundamentalism within the disability movement, which, she argued, limited the potential of the new paradigm. This volume reproduces the original thesis with the addition of a new introduction, which gives the background to the creation of the work and offers some thoughts on the current neurodiversity movement.

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