{"product_id":"historical-sociology-of-disability-paperback-softback","title":"Historical Sociology of Disability - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCovering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, \u003ci\u003eA Historical Sociology of Disability \u003c\/i\u003eargues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as \u003ci\u003egood to mistreat \u003c\/i\u003eand – with the rise of Christianity – \u003ci\u003egood to be good to. \u003c\/i\u003eIt examines the place and role of disabled people in the moral economy of the successive cultures that have constituted ‘Western civilisation’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the story of disability as it is imagined and re-imagined through the cultural lens of ableism. It is a story of invalidation; of the material habituations of culture and moral sentiment that paint pictures of disability as ‘what not to be’. The author examines the forces of moral regulation that fall violently in behind the dehumanising, ontological \u003ci\u003efait accompli \u003c\/i\u003eof disability invalidation, and explores the ways in which the normate community conceived of, narrated and acted in relation to disability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Historical Sociology of Disability \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of interest to all scholars, students and activists working in the field of Disability Studies, as well as sociology, education, philosophy, theology and history. It will appeal to anyone who is interested in the past, present and future of the ‘last civil rights movement’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45565273932014,"sku":"9780367174200","price":62.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367174200_3e5e5d07-b76c-4caf-b921-d48f094018e6.jpg?v=1720677291","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/historical-sociology-of-disability-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}