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Feminist perspectives on disability
- Author:
- FAWCETT Barbara
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 180p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Provides an introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. Considers contemporary similarities and differences and contentious areas and how concepts drawn from postmodern feminism can be usefully applied to the disability arena. Explores: biological debates; issues of power, knowledge, equality, difference, subjectivity and the body; interface of public and private care and community; medical and social barriers; and politics, citizenship and identity.