Feminist Perspectives on Disability

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Acknowledgements
1.
Setting the scene
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Feminist perspectives
	Undifferentiated unitary groupings
	Writing about disability issues: who should do it?
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
2.
\'Disability\': a contested topic
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Individual or medical models of disability
	The social model of disability
	Categorising processes
	Self-categorising processes
	Notions of risk and risk assessment
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
3.
Feminism(s) and \'disability\'
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Deconstructive analyses
	Binary distinctions
	Issues of unity
	The question of difference
	The place of experience
	Disability and \'impairment\'
	Disability and the body
	Disability and oppression
	Disability and standpoint positionings
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
4.
Community care: the public, the private and the interface between them
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	\'Community\'
	\'Care\'
	\'Community care\'
	Care in the community
	Care in the community: a critical appraisal
	Individual wants versus professional/agency assessed needs
	Service needs perceived by service users and service
needs perceived by agencies
		Needs versus available resources
		Modernising social services
	The public, the private and the interface between them
	The private: roles and relationships
	The public: public faces
	The interface: community and citizenship
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
5.
Postmodem feminism(s): exploring tensions, making links
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Poststructuralism
		The influence of Foucault
	Postmodernity and postmodernism
	Feminist critiques of postmodern orientations
	Similarities and differences between feminism(s)
and postmodernism
	Postmodern feminism(s): an overview
		Postmodern feminism(s) and power/knowledge
frameworks
		Postmodern feminism(s) and notions of subjectivity
		Postmodern feminism(s) and matters of difference
		Postmodern feminism(s) and conceptualisations of able-bodiedness, disabled-bodiedness and the body
	Concluding
remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
6.
Postmodem feminism(s) and debates in the arena of disability
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Needs, rights, citizenship and matters of difference
	Privileged power/knowledge frameworks
	Multiple selves
	Risks, expertise and ethics
	The weighting of oppressions
	Bodily considerations
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Notes
	Further reading
7.
Conclusion
	Chapter outline
	Introduction
	Postmodern feminism(s) and structuration theory
	Concluding remarks
	Summary
	Further reading
Bibliography
Index