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Theorising normalcy and the mundane : precarious positions / edited by Rebecca Mallett, Cassandra A. Ogden and Jenny Slater.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chester : University of Chester Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781908258496
  • 1908258497
  • 1908258209
  • 9781908258205
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 128.4 23
LOC classification:
  • B105.N65
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Half title page; Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane Editorial Board; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents page; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth -- Jenny Slater; Chapter 2: Deconstructing the ""Normal"" Student. A Discourse Analysis of ""Prospective Student"" Materials Across Three Institutions -- Lucia Radcliffe; Chapter 3: Is This Inclusion? Teachers Resisting Normalcy Within the Classroom -- Sue Chantler.
Chapter 4: The ""Urge to Know"" Normal: Theorising How Impairment Labels Function -- Rebecca Mallett and Katherine Runswick-ColeChapter 5: Passing or Trespassing? Unseen Disability, Containment and the Politics of ""Feeling Like a Fraud"" in a Neoliberal Bureaucracy -- Harriet Cooper; Chapter: Armless Dreams or Carnal Practices?: Transableism and the Legitimisation of the Ideal Body -- Cassandra A. Ogden; Chapter 7: People of Substance: Disability, Problematic Drug Use and Normalcy -- Jess Bradley and Greta Williams-Schulz.
Chapter 8: The Cult of Health and Wholeness: Normalcy and the Charismatic Christian Healing Movement -- Naomi Lawson JacobsChapter 9: Relational Autonomy and Disability: Beyond Normative Constructs and Post-Structuralist Deconstructions -- Steve Graby and Anat Greenstein; Chapter 10: In Praise of Normal: Re-Reading Wolfensberger -- Kathy Boxall; Back cover.
Summary: The wide-ranging chapters from the Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conferences explore the precarious positions ""normal"", and its operating system ""normalcy"" (Davis, 2010).
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Front cover; Half title page; Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane Editorial Board; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents page; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth -- Jenny Slater; Chapter 2: Deconstructing the ""Normal"" Student. A Discourse Analysis of ""Prospective Student"" Materials Across Three Institutions -- Lucia Radcliffe; Chapter 3: Is This Inclusion? Teachers Resisting Normalcy Within the Classroom -- Sue Chantler.

Chapter 4: The ""Urge to Know"" Normal: Theorising How Impairment Labels Function -- Rebecca Mallett and Katherine Runswick-ColeChapter 5: Passing or Trespassing? Unseen Disability, Containment and the Politics of ""Feeling Like a Fraud"" in a Neoliberal Bureaucracy -- Harriet Cooper; Chapter: Armless Dreams or Carnal Practices?: Transableism and the Legitimisation of the Ideal Body -- Cassandra A. Ogden; Chapter 7: People of Substance: Disability, Problematic Drug Use and Normalcy -- Jess Bradley and Greta Williams-Schulz.

Chapter 8: The Cult of Health and Wholeness: Normalcy and the Charismatic Christian Healing Movement -- Naomi Lawson JacobsChapter 9: Relational Autonomy and Disability: Beyond Normative Constructs and Post-Structuralist Deconstructions -- Steve Graby and Anat Greenstein; Chapter 10: In Praise of Normal: Re-Reading Wolfensberger -- Kathy Boxall; Back cover.

The wide-ranging chapters from the Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conferences explore the precarious positions ""normal"", and its operating system ""normalcy"" (Davis, 2010).

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