Download or read book Contours of Ableism written by F. Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.