The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

by Jasbir K. Puar

Book Overview

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of "debility"--bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors--to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369184
• ISBN13: 9780822369189
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"