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Body Politics and Disability

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2017
The article explores the relation between the body and subjectivity through the lens of physical disability. Embarking from the idea that corporeality plays a crucial role in the way subjects are conceptualized, it emphasizes the potential of the non-normative body to produce a more flexible type of subjectivity. By focusing on poems on disability that
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Disability and Politics

Abstract A key aim of this book is to help ensure that disability moves away from its current marginalized position within the study of politics. It urges scholars who have yet to think about disability in relation to the study of representation, institutions, parties, or voting to incorporate disability into their analyses.
Elizabeth Evans, Stefanie Reher
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The politics of disability

Critical Social Policy, 1984
This paper briefly considers the influence of the economy on the material circumstances of disabled people and some of the reasons why a politics of disability has now become possible. It goes on to consider the role of dis ability organisations in relation to the state and in the articulation of the political demands of disabled people.
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Biopluralism, disability, and democratic politics

Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2021
The rejection of disability as a tragic biological condition is central to affirmative disability politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century Anglo tradition.
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Disability Policy and Politics

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2000
This historical case study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, a disability-rights activist group in Depression-era New York City, examines some of the ways in which people with disabilities have contested and endeavored to alter the public policies and social values that have affected their social identities and social careers.
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Body Politic: Disability and Political Cohesion

Disability is a human universal and a complex social category with far-reaching implications for American law and public policy (Bagenstos, 2000; Scheer and Groce, 1988). Yet, little is known about the potential implications of disability for political psychology.
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Disability and Reproductive Politics

2013
What basic reproductive restrictions have been placed on women with disabilities in the past and today? Historically, the medical community and general society considered disabled women—those who were born with genetic anomalies, or acquired disabilities associated with diseases such as cerebral palsy or polio,...
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Disability and Political Representation

Abstract Disability and Political Representation explores how and why representation is important for disabled people, but also how disability can help us think about the contours of political representation. The book examines the barriers to political participation that disabled people face and discusses why increasing the number of ...
Evans, Elizabeth, Reher, Stefanie
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False dichotomies of disability politics

Journal of Language and Politics, 2011
This article discusses the relationship between the social and medical models of disability and between the academic and NGO communities in that field. Interviews with professionals from Norwegian disability NGOs show that while they share some of the political goals of the social model, they have a somewhat narrow understanding of the model’s critical
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Disability, Politics and Citizenship

1996
This chapter will return to the relationship between the personal and political, originally discussed in Chapter 1. Its main focus will be on collective empowerment and this will be discussed in relation to the rise of the disability movement in Britain. The discussion will draw upon the recent reintroduction of the idea of citizenship, heralded by the
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