Claiming Disability - (Cultural Front) by Simi Linton (Paperback)

Claiming Disability is a comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry, providing a broadened and enriched definition of disability.

This book overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.

With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Linton explores the divisions society creates - the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state.

This book is a must-read for anyone seriously thinking about the body and body politics in the postmodern era, providing a systematic, theoretically engaging, and policy-relevant definition of disability studies.