Review
"It is inspiring and exciting to see so much happening in disability studies in Canada and abroad and an excellent place to start is by reading
Rethinking Normalcy. This volume illustrates the richness and relevance of disability studies to our everyday life by covering many of the debates, concepts, and controversies in this field from a primarily Canadian perspective.... There is nothing like this book in Canada. It is badly needed." (Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program, York University )
Product Description
Rethinking Normalcy introduces the growing field of disability studies to an undergraduate audience in a variety of disciplines and programs based in the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences. The authors articulate the depth and breadth of this newly emerging field of study and provide a vibrant foretaste of the kind of work disability studies scholars and activists do to provocatively question the power of normalcy.
Strongly interdisciplinary, this volume draws upon many different social and cultural approaches to the study of disability, and essentially addresses disability as a social and political issue.
The chapters in this book exemplify ways of questioning our collective relations to normalcy, as such relations affect the lives of both disabled and currently non-disabled people.
Over sixty per cent of this book features the work of disability studies scholars located in Canada.
