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The capacity contract : intellectual disability and the question of citizenship / Stacy Clifford Simplican.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Capacity contract : intellectual disability and the question of citizenship.LOC classification:
  • HV3004 .S54 2015
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Contents:
Machine 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine 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.

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