Withers Disability Politics And Theory

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I chose to write a review on Withers, A. J. (2012) Disability Politics and Theory, to discuss different model of disability in detail independently and in conjunction with other form of oppressions: gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity and etc. A.J. Withers, in Disability Politics and Theory, provides an extensive description and interpretation of disability by comparing past and contemporary ideologies around disability. Withers focuses mainly on six models: the eugenic, the medical, the charity, the social, and the rights models within Western societies to explore not only the assumptions and perceptions of oppressive discourses around disabilities, but also how people with disabilities have been resisting those oppressive norms or ideologies.

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