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001 2014025338
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008 141117s2015 mnu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014025338
020 $a9780816693979 (hardback)
020 $a9780816694037 (pb)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
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050 00 $aHV3004$b.S54 2015
082 00 $a323.3$223
084 $aSOC029000$aLIT003000$aPOL000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSimplican, Stacy Clifford,$d1978-
245 14 $aThe capacity contract :$bintellectual disability and the question of citizenship /$cStacy Clifford Simplican.
264 1 $aMinneapolis ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c[2015]
300 $aix, 181 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender. She exposes how democratic theory and politics have long blocked from political citizenship anyone whose cognitive capacity falls below a threshold level--marginalization with real-world repercussions on the implementation of disability rights today.Simplican's compelling ethnographic analysis of the self-advocacy movement describes the obstacles it faces. From the outside, the movement must confront stiff budget cuts and dwindling memberships; internally, self-advocates must find ways to demand political standing without reinforcing entrenched stigma against people with profound cognitive disabilities. And yet Simplican's investigation also offers democratic theorists and disability activists a more emancipatory vision of democracy as it relates to disability--one that focuses on enabling people to engage in public and spontaneous action to disrupt exclusion and stigma. Taking seriously democratic promises of equality and inclusion, The Capacity Contract rejects conceptions of political citizenship that privilege cognitive capacity and, instead, centers such citizenship on action that is accessible to all people"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability -- 1. Locke's Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy -- 2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect -- 3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory -- 4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement -- 5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
650 0 $aPeople with mental disabilities$xCivil rights.
650 0 $aPeople with mental disabilities$xPolitical activity.
650 0 $aCognition disorders$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aPolitical rights.
650 0 $aPolitical participation.
650 0 $aCitizenship.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.$2bisacsh