Deaf and Disabled or deaf disabled - Softcover

Marion Corker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335196993 ISBN 13: 9780335196999

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Deaf people's quest for self-definition and self-determination has tended to take one of two divergent paths each embracing vastly different and often conflicting conceptualizations of deafness and disability and their relationships to contemporary socio-cultural and political contexts. Because fragmentation works against collective empowerment and effective political challenges to oppression, there is a great need to identify a common discourse which all deaf and disabled people can share without compromising fundamental beliefs and values. This book is the first to use a multidisciplinary, postmodernist approach in the search for an inclusive framework for understanding deafness and disability, which aims to liberate the political potential of socio-cultural diversity and develop our thinking about disability as a form of social oppression. In using this approach, it exposes the essentialism inherent in existing social, political and service frameworks which confuse issues of needs and rights and contribute to the creation and reinforcement of the power imbalances at the heart of disability oppression.

About this title

About the Author

Mairian Corker is a self-employed writer, researcher and educator on all issues affecting the lives of deaf and disabled people. Deaf herself, she has published widely in the areas of deaf education, counselling and psychology. She is Editor of Deaf Worlds and an Executive Editor of Disability and Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335196993
• ISBN 13: 9780335196999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106