This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.
"Margrit Shildrick's Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality marks a welcome, needed, and challenging contribution. ... scholars from multiple disciplines interested in critical disability studies-from English to gender and sexuality studies and from sociology to bioethics-will find it insightful and provocative." (Joel Michael Reynolds, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 11 (1), 2018)