Disability Theory [Paperback]

Disability Theoryis just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays.Disability Theoryis a field-defining book: and if you're curious about what 'disability' has to do with 'theory,' it's just the book you've been waiting for, too.
---Michael B?rub?, Pennsylvania State University

Disability Theoryis magisterially written, thoroughly researched, and polemically powerful. It will be controversial in a number of areas and will probably ruffle feathers both in disability studies as well as in realms of cultural theory. And that's all to the good.
---Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego

Not only isDisability Theorya groundbreaking contribution to disability studies, it is also a bold, ambitious and much needed revision to a number of adjacent and overlapping fields including cultural studies, literary theory, queer theory, and critical race studies. Siebers has written a powerful manifesto that calls theory to account and forces readers to think beyond our comfort zones.
---Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles

Intelligent, provocative, and challenging,Disability Theoryrevolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argues that disability studies transfigures basic assumptions about identity, ideology, language, politics, social oppression, and the body. At the same time, he advances the emerging field of disabilil³&