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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stacy Clifford Simplican |
ISBN: | 0816693978 9780816693979 0816694036 9780816694037 9781336225626 1336225629 |
OCLC Number: | 906534436 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | ContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability1. Locke's Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming EmpoweredAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex |
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"The Capacity Contract brings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens."-Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities 'within some normal range,' but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a 'capacity contract' is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms."-Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota "A very interesting read."-Catholic Medical Quarterly"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. "-Disability Studies Quarterly"The Capacity Contract should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices."-The Review of Politics Read more...

