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Rethinking Disability in India
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Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that this `difference' should be accepted as a part of social diversity. It further interrogates the multiple issues of identification of the disabled and the forms of oppressio
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Index
Abidi, Javed 132, 267, 324
able-bodied xviii, 3, 11, 17, 77, 80, 215, 217–19, 228–30, 234, 235, 263; identity 265; mortality 300; persons 3, 80, 213; norm of 166; society 217, 228, 234, 235, 270, see ablest society
able-ism 6, 60, 146, 206, 222
ablest society 137, 161, 236, 293
abortion 168, 169, 171–73, 176, 177, 179, 180, 186, 188, 189, 194, 203, 244; of disabled foetus 171, 172, 177, 183, 188, 194, (see female foeticide); see and Down syndrome 174, 176, 187; of female foetuses 75, 169–70, 188; feminists and 169, 244; forced 169, 192; grounds for 175; guilt for 174; as immoral 168, 185; individual choice in 185–91; as intellectual impairment 177; Johri on 31; legal system and 168; legitimization of 171; Mary Jane Owen on 168; right to 167, 168, 170; an unwanted foetus 186; a woman’s personal choice 180
abuse 102, 158, 160, 195, 207, 286
Acharaya Ramamurti Review Committee 116, 117
Addlakha, Renu 29, 153, 160
Adler 63
aesthetic theory of disability 238–40, see disability, theory of
Agrawal, S. N. 132
AIDS xviii, xix, 26, 72, 115, 117, 123, 198, 217, 262, see HIV
Alert, Human Genetics 191
Alexander, C. M. 54
Alexander, John. M. 54
alms giving 53–54, 56, 58, 59, see chari...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- One An Autobiographical Note: My Own Journey
- Two Conversations about Disability: The Cultural Landscape
- Three Understanding Disability: Slippery Ropes
- Four At the Periphery: Marginalized Disabled Lives
- Five Mystifying Realities: Right to Life
- Six Theorizing Disability
- Seven Politics of Identity: Oppression and Resistance
- Eight Need For a Paradigm Shift: Conceptualizing Disability Studies
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
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