Making and Unmaking Disability

Julie E. Maybee is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy as well as the director of the interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY). She also teaches in the Disability Studies Master’s Program for CUNY’s School of Professional Studies. For many years, her research areas were 19th century Continental philosophy, particularly the work of G.W.F. Hegel, African philosophy, and race and philosophy. After her daughter had a brain aneurysm and became what our society would call “disabled” in 2002, Maybee became interested in the analysis of disability as a social category.

• Series Editor ForewordPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction and Theoretical OverviewChapter 1: Disability and CapitalismChapter 2: A New Structure of Attitudes: Normalcy, Eugenics, the Ugly Laws and SegregationChapter 3: The Experience of the Socially Defined BodyChapter 4: The Socially Defined Body in SocietyChapter 5: The Socially Constructed Body in BiologyChapter 6: Beyond Individual AccommodationChapter 7: Diversifying Access, Remaking WorldsConclusion

Informed by anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, disability theory, and history, Julie E. Maybee provides a sweeping overview of many barriers to equity and community participation faced by people with disabilities in American society. This book is a great primer on different ways to look at disability.