Disability and Political Theory

Barbara Arneil is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the author of John Locke and America (1996), Feminism and Politics (1999), Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital (Cambridge, 2006), and a co-edited anthology entitled Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice (2006). Scholarly recognition includes the Harrison Prize (best article published in Political Studies), the Rockefeller Fellowship in Bellagio, C. B. MacPherson Prize (shortlist) and Killam Research and Teaching Prizes. Nancy J. Hirschmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and has published many books and articles in feminist theory and disability theory, including The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (2003), Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory (2008), and Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging (2015), co-edited with Beth Linker.

• Foreword Deborah Stone; 1. Disability and political theory: an introduction Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann; 2. Disability in political theory versus international practice: redefining equality and freedom Barbara Arneil; 3. The ableist contract: intellectual disability and the limits of justice in Kant's political thought Lucas Pinheiro; 4. Disavowals of disability in Rawls's Theory of Justice and his critics Stacy Clifford Simplican; 5. Disabling barriers, enabling freedom Nancy J. Hirschmann; 6. Disability and violence: another call for democratic inclusion and pluralism Joan Tronto; 7. Dyslexia manifesto Kathy E. Ferguson; 8. Hannah Arendt and disability: natality and the right to inhabit the world Lorraine Krall McCrary; 9. Connecting the disconnect: mental disorder and political disorder Theresa Lee; 10. Wollstonecraft, Hobbes, and the rationality of women's anxiety Eileen Hunt Botting; 11. Rethinking membership and participation in an inclusive democracy: cognitive disability, children, animals Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka; 12. Rethinking 'cure' and 'accommodation' Nancy J. Hirschmann and Rogers M. Smith.

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