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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.90816
EAN: 9780814751343
ISBN: 0814751342
Label: NYU Press
Manufacturer: NYU Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 01, 1998
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Studio: NYU Press
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Editorial Review:"Long overdue, Claiming Disability both carves out a new field of study, and introduces and educates readers to disability studies as a vibrant space of intellectual work. Linton weaves in and out of disciplines—queer studies, traditional educational psychology, literary criticism, critical legal studies—without a blink. Both precise and expansive, she declares and defines disability studies in ways that are systematic, theoretically engaging, and policy-relevant."
—Michelle Fine, City University of New York"Claiming Disability is the most comprehensive book in disability studies to come along yet. It wisely defines terms and concepts, linking them to and questioning the dominant issues in identity politics and multiculturalism, while mapping a direction for future study. A must read for anyone seriously thinking about the body and body politics in the postmodern era."
—Lennard Davis, author of Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body"Provides a broadened and enriched definition of disability, and its author unfolds a compelling way to evaluate Special Education."
— Laurie R. Lehman, Educators for Urban MinoritiesFrom public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton explores the divisions society creates—the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state.Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.
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Rating:  - Practical theory at its best!
I highly recommend Linton's work for all those who may, like myself find themselves pushing hard at the school doors of full inclusion in time and space. While a teacher may know the frustrations of not having others "get" why they are doing "it", that is inclusion, Linton's text provides a discursive analysis of those practices, frames and meanings we need to thoroughly engage if inclusion will ever succeed. Timesless, provocative and required reading.
Rating:  - thanks, simi!
in the span of a course titled 'representing disability' i really found simi linton's work to be the most comprehensive and inspiring literature that we covered. linton, in this text lies down not only the challenges facing the disability rights movement today, but also a road map for the future. mad props.
Rating: - Important, Thoughtful, and Timely
Claiming Disability: Making the Case for Inclusion
In Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie archly reminded us that when you've got three people, you've got a movement. The disability rights movement has moved miles beyond the three-person requirement. There have been sit-ins, bus boycotts, rallies, and student strikes. Disability studies, by contrast, has been something of a stepchild of that movement and, until recently, has been largely without a coherent manifesto. Simi Linton has remedied ... Read More
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