The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism
O'Reilly, Michelle / Lester, Jessica Nina![The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/429/42959204/CHSBZCOP0342959204.jpg)
Taking up a social constructionist position, this book illustrates the social and cultural construction of autism as made visible in everyday, educational, institutional and historical discourses, alongside a careful consideration of the bodily and material realities of embodied differences. The authors highlight the economic consequences of a disabling culture, and explore how autism fits within broader arguments related to normality, abnorma...