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Description:This book explores how being disabled originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations--the interplay of which render bodies normal or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed people's experiences of their bodies and their fight for substantive equality. Understanding these processes requires acknowledging the tension between social construction and embodiment as well as centering the intersection of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, class, gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on.Scholars and researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it accessible and informative.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies). To get started finding Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book explores how being disabled originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations--the interplay of which render bodies normal or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed people's experiences of their bodies and their fight for substantive equality. Understanding these processes requires acknowledging the tension between social construction and embodiment as well as centering the intersection of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, class, gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on.Scholars and researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it accessible and informative.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies). To get started finding Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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