Making and Unmaking Disability

The Three-Body Approach

By: Julie E. Maybee

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Hardcover | 17 September 2019

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264 Pages

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13 - 17

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23.09 x 15.9 x 2.52

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If the future is accessible, as Alisa Grishmanâ"one of 55 million Americans categorized as having a disabilityâ"writes in this bookâs cover image, then we must stop making or constructing people as disabled and impaired.

In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles.

Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.

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Informed by anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, disability theory, and history, Julie E. Maybee provides a sweeping overview of many barriers to equity and community participation faced by people with disabilities in American society. This book is a great primer on different ways to look at disability. -- Jennifer C. Sarrett, lecturer, Emory University
A fresh and insightful approach to analyzing the complex routes through which the phenomenon of disability is generated. Maybee's theoretically and empirically wide-ranging account moves the discussion of disability and embodiment to a new level. -- Jackie Leach Scully, director, Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales

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