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Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability

Carol Thomas

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Part 1 Defining disability: defining disability - the social model defining disability - a definitional riddle disability and the social self. Part 2 Female forms: disability and feminist perspectives - the personal and the political disability and gender wherein lies the difference?. Part 3 Understanding disability: theorizing disability and impairment disability studies and medical sociology chapter notes.

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Part 1 Defining disability: defining disability - the social model defining disability - a definitional riddle disability and the social self. Part 2 Female forms: disability and feminist perspectives - the personal and the political disability and gender wherein lies the difference?. Part 3 Understanding disability: theorizing disability and impairment disability studies and medical sociology chapter notes.

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Part 1 Defining disability: defining disability - the social model defining disability - a definitional riddle disability and the social self. Part 2 Female forms: disability and feminist perspectives - the personal and the political disability and gender wherein lies the difference?. Part 3 Understanding disability: theorizing disability and impairment disability studies and medical sociology chapter notes.

Key concepts: Medical model of disability, Disability studies, Social model of disability, Psychology, Physical disability, Intellectual disability, Developmental psychology, Sociology

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