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The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship

Stacy Clifford Simplican

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816693979

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693979.001.0001

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Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability

Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability

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(p.1) Introduction Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability
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The Capacity Contract
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Stacy Clifford Simplican

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816693979.003.0001

The Introduction describes dominant approaches to disability--measurement, care, and identity politics--and discusses how these frameworks constrain scholars’ interrogation of the relationship between disability and anxiety. Analyzing anxiety is vital as it reveals how democratic equality is unattainable as long as democratic membership is hinged to cognitive capacity.

Keywords:   Social contract, Feminist disability studies, Arendt, Rawls, Locke, Disability Rights, Democracy

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