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This work explores and develops ideas about disability, engaging with important debates in disability studies about what disability is and how to theorize it. It also examines the interface between disability studies, women's studies and medical sociology, offering a review of theoretical approaches. The title "Female Forms" reflects two things about the book: first, its use of disabled women's experiences, as told by themselves, to bring a number of themes to life; and second, the author's belief in the importance of feminist ideas and debates for disability studies. The social model of disability is the book's bedrock, but the author both challenges and contributes to social modelist thought. She advances a materialist feminist perspective on disability, producing a text which is of multi-disciplinary relevance.

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CONTENTS

Series editor's preface = ⅹ

Acknowledgements = xii

 Introduction = 1

  Understanding disability = 1

  The structure of the book and the argument = 2

  Experiencing disability : disabled women's narratives = 5

  Key terms = 7

  Notes = 9

Part Ⅰ : Defining disability = 11

 1 Defining disability : the social mode = l13

  Introduction = 13

  Political roots = 14

  Social barriers = 16

  Disabled women constrained by social barriers = 17

  The emergence of critiques of the social model = 24

  Gender = 26

  Endings = 30

  Notes = 30

 2 Defining disability : a definitional riddle = 33

  Introduction = 33

  A medical sociologist on disability = 34

  Susan Wendell's definitional approach = 36

  The challenge = 38

  The definitional riddle = 39

  The social relational and property definitions of disability = 39

  Conflation = 41

  Easy target = 42

  Impairment effects = 42

  Endings : back to a social relational definition of disability = 44

  Notes = 45

 3 Disability and the social self = 46

  Introduction = 46

  Broadening the social relational definition of disability : beyond 'doing' = 47

  Barriers on the outside, inside = 47

  Experiencing the psycho-emotional dimensions of disablism = 48

  Recent debates in Disability Studies : the cultural = 56

  Constructionism, idealism and materialism = 58

  Endings = 60

  Notes = 61

Part Ⅱ : Female forms = 63

 4 Disability and feminist perspectives : the personal and the political = 65

  Introduction = 65

  Excluded by our sisters = 66

  The significance of telling one's story and of 'writing the self' = 68

  Challenging the status quo = 69

  Disabled feminists = 70

  The counter-critique = 72

  The place of the personal = 73

  The epistemological importance of 'experience' = 75

  Endings = 80

  Notes = 82

 5 Disability and gender = 84

  Introduction = 84

  Gendered disablism = 84

  Making sense of oppressions = 97

  Endings = 99

  Notes = 99

 6 Wherein lies the difference? = 101

  Introduction = 101

  Feminisms = 102

  Disability, impairment and difference = 104

  Constructed difference? = 110

  Identity = 112

  Reflecting on the debates about difference = 115

  What about identity? = 117

  Endings = 120

  Notes = 120

Part Ⅲ : Understanding disability = 121

 7 Theorizing disability and impairment = 123

  Introduction = 123

  Disability and impairment = 123

  The death of the grand narratives : postmodernism = 135

  Endings : ways forward? = 142

  Notes = 144

 8 Disability Studies and medical sociology = 145

  Introduction = 145

  The divide = 146

  Conceptualizing disability = 148

  Understanding experience = 149

  Doing disability research = 152

  Endings : ways forward? = 155

  Notes = 157

 References = 160

 Index = 171