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Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences

Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences

Pritchard, Erin

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 036745906X
ISBN13: 9780367459062
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2020
Pages: 150
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10.

This book engages with the concept that dwarfism's most prominent feature - body size and shape - can form the basis of social discrimination and disadvantages within society. By ignoring body size as a disability, it is hard to see the resulting disabling consequences of the built environment. Using a mixed-methods approach and drawing on the work undertaken by human geographers and disability studies academics, this book analyses how the relationship between harmful cultural stereotypes and space shapes everyday experiences of people with dwarfism and works to socially exclude them in diverse ways. Showing how spatial and social barriers are not mutually exclusive but can influence one another, this book responds to the limited academic work on the subject of dwarfism, whilst also contributing to the study of geographies of body size.

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