Female Forms

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This work explores and develops ideas about disability, engaging with important debates in disability studies about what disability is and how to theorize it. It also examines the interface between disability studies, women's studies and medical sociology, offering a review of theoretical approaches. =o= =o= Contents Series editor's preface Acknowledgements Introduction Understanding disability The structure of the book and the argument Key terms Notes Defining disability: the social model Introduction Political roots UPIAS definitions of impairment and disability DPI definitions of impairment and disability Social barriers Disabled women constrained by social barriers The emergence of critiques of the social model Gender Endings Notes Defining disability: a definition riddle Introduction WHO definitional schema (ICIDH) A medical sociologist on disability Susan Wendell's definitional approach The challenge The definitional riddle The social relational and the property definitions of disability Conflation Easy target Impairment effects Endings: back to a social relational definition of disability Notes Disability and the social self Introduction Broadening the social relational definition of disability: beyond 'doing' Barriers on the outside, inside Experiencing the psycho-emotional dimensions of disablism Constructionism, idealism and materialism ©4 Disability and feminist perspectives: the personal and the political Introduction Excluded by our sisters The significance of telling one's story and of 'writing the self' Challenging the status quo Disabled feminists The counter-critique The place of the personal The epistemological importance of 'experience' Endings £X5 Disability and gender Making sense of oppressions Endings Notes Wherein lies the difference? Introduction Feminisms Disability, impairment and difference Constructed difference? Identity Reflecting on the debates about difference What about identity? Endings Notes ©7 Theorizing disability and impairment Introduction Disability and impairment Historical materialism The death of the grand narratives: postmodernism Endings: ways forward? Disability Studies and medical sociology Introduction The divide Conceptualizing disability Understanding experience Doing disability research Endings: ways forward? References Index