Examining what the study of disability tells us about the production, operation and maintenance of ableism, this ambitious study explores the ways 'abled-ness' is understood, providing new directions in research on 'aberrancy' and its focus on a normative ethos. Reconfiguring and challenging the disability studies perspective, this book extends its remit beyond the traditional concern with social inequalities, exploring the territories of embodiment, subjectivity, transhumanism, technologies and jurisprudence. The book uncovers sites of the production of abelism and conversely, sites of resistance to ableist norms and practices to ask key questions such as what happens when 'disability' and 'desire' are placed in close proximity? how does law reinforce negative associations of impairment? how do the media present the promises of new disability technologies and medical interventions? With a Foreword by Dan Goodley this book is a major contribution to our understanding of able and disabled bodies.

From the Author

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Forward: Prof. Dan Goodley Part A: Cogitating Ableism Chapter 1: The Project of Ableism Chapter 2: Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Chapter 3: Tentative Disability – Mitigation and its Discontents Chapter 4: Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies Part B: Spectres of Ableism Chapter 5: The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Chapter 6: Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Chapter 7: Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching & Standpoint Chapter 8: Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence & Ontological Envelopment Chapter 9: Disability Harm & Wrongful Life Torts Chapter 10: Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and the Transabled Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM The Project of Ableism Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching & Standpoint Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence & Ontological Envelopment Disability Harm& Wrongful Life Torts Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?

About the Author

FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Human Services& Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.