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Book SynopsisChallenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.
Table of ContentsForeword by Professor Dan Goodley PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM The Project of Ableism Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching& Standpoint Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence& Ontological Envelopment Disability Harm& Wrongful Life Torts Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?
