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Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach: Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy

Autor Julie E. Maybee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 sep 2019
If the future is accessible, as Alisa Grishman-one of 55 million Americans categorized as having a disability-writes in this book's cover image, then we must stop making or constructing people as disabled and impaired.

In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles.

Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538127728
ISBN-10: 1538127725
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration; 1 table; 44 textboxes
Dimensiuni: 159 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Series Editor Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction and Theoretical Overview

Chapter 1: Disability and Capitalism

Chapter 2: A New Structure of Attitudes: Normalcy, Eugenics, the Ugly Laws and Segregation

Chapter 3: The Experience of the Socially Defined Body

Chapter 4: The Socially Defined Body in Society

Chapter 5: The Socially Constructed Body in Biology

Chapter 6: Beyond Individual Accommodation

Chapter 7: Diversifying Access, Remaking Worlds

Conclusion

Recenzii

Drawing from a knowledge base encompassing such diverse disciplines as anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, and disability theory and history, Maybee (philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY) develops a powerful discussion of the way prevailing societal beliefs shape every facet of how people organize and make sense of the world around them. Maybee's three-pronged strategy is based on embodiment-institutional, interpersonal, and individual-and she uses it in analyzing how persistent values are created and reflected in the language used to define disability, in effect "making" a construct of a person's worth in the community. Maybee explores the interactive sociocultural and economic factors that keep people who have disabilities from fully engaging with their milieus. She suggests, rightly, that to achieve equality for people with disabilities, change must be institutional and structural to be effective and "unmake" disability. Maybee is a skilled writer and lays out logical arguments to facilitate change. She has extensive experience as a mother of a child who became disabled because of a brain aneurysm. The narrative is easy to follow, and Maybee provides succinct outlines reinforcing her points.



Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.

Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach dissects disability and its social construction through the three dimensions of embodiment: the personal, interpersonal, and institutional body.... Those interested in teaching special education-from elementary education to higher education-would find this informative.
Informed by anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, disability theory, and history, Julie E. Maybee provides a sweeping overview of many barriers to equity and community participation faced by people with disabilities in American society. This book is a great primer on different ways to look at disability.
A fresh and insightful approach to analyzing the complex routes through which the phenomenon of disability is generated. Maybee's theoretically and empirically wide-ranging account moves the discussion of disability and embodiment to a new level.
An important contribution to the growing literature on philosophy and disability. Moving fluently between philosophy, the social sciences, and history, it makes a powerful case that our judgments, perceptions, and even experiences of disability have been pervasively shaped by political, economic, social, and cultural forces.