The Difference That Disability Makes
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Word Count
48,500 words, Guess
Page Count
194 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-101566399343
- ISBN-139781566399340
- Goodreads2619077
- LibraryThing1077178
- Library of Congress Control Number2001046308
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number47650926
- Better World Books9781566399340
- Open LibraryOL8669046M
Classifications
- LCCHV1568 .M53 2002
- LCCHV1568.M53 2002
Description
"Rod Michalko launches into this book asking why disabled people are still feared, still regarded as useless or unfit to live, not yet welcome in society? Michalko challenges us to come to grips with the social meanings attached to disability and the body that is not "normal." Michalko's analysis draws from his own understanding of blindness and narratives by other disabled people. Connecting lived experience with social theory, he shows the consistent exclusion of disabled people from the common understandings of humanity and what constitutes the good life. He offers new insight into what suffering a disability means to individuals as well as to the polity as a whole. He shows how disability can teach society about itself, about its determination of what is normal and who belongs. Guiding us to a new understanding of how disability, difference, and suffering are related, this book enables us to choose disability as a social identity and a collective political issue. The difference that disability makes can be valuable and worthwhile, but only if we choose to make it so."--BOOK JACKET.
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