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Series editor's preface x
Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1
Understanding disability 1
The structure of the book and the argument 2
Experiencing disability: disabled women's narratives 5
Key terms 7
Notes 9

Part I: Defining disability 11

1 Defining disability: the social model 13
Introduction 13
Political roots 14
Social barriers 16
Disabled women constrained by social barriers 17
The emergence of critiques of the social model 24
Gender 26
Endings 30
Notes 30

2 Defining disability: a definitional riddle 33
Introduction 33
A medical sociologist on disability 34
Susan Wendell's definitional approach 36
The challenge 38
The definitional riddle 39
The social relational and property definitions of disability 39
Conflation 41
Easy target
Impairment effects 42
Endings: back to a social relational definition of disability 44
Notes 45
3 Disability and the social self 46
Introduction 46
Broadening the social relational definition of disability: beyond 'doing' 47
Barriers on the outside, inside 47
Experiencing the psycho-emotional dimensions of disablism 48
Recent debates in Disability Studies: the cultural 56
Constructionism, idealism and materialism 58
Endings 60
Notes 61

Part II: Female forms 63

4 Disability and feminist perspectives: the personal and the political 65
Introduction 65
Excluded by our sisters 66
The significance of telling one's story and of 'writing the self' 68
Challenging the status quo 69
Disabled feminists 70
The counter-critique 72
The place of the personal 73
The epistemological importance of 'experience' 75
Endings 80
Notes 82

5 Disability and gender 84
Introduction 84
Gendered disablism 84
Making sense of oppressions 97
Endings 99
Notes 99

6 Wherein lies the difference? 101
Introduction 101
Feminisms 102
Disability, impairment and difference 104
Constructed difference? 110
Identity 112
Reflecting on the debates about difference 115
What about identity? 117
Endings 120
Notes 120
Part III: Understanding disability 121
7 Theorizing disability and impairment 123
Introduction 123
Disability and impairment 123
Historical materialism 125
The death of the grand narratives: postmodernism 135
Endings: ways forward? 142
Notes 144
8 Disability Studies and medical sociology 145
Introduction 145
The divide 146
Conceptualizing disability 148
Understanding experience 149
Doing disability research 152
Endings: ways forward? 155
Notes 157
References 160
Index 171