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Narratives of Disability and the Movement from Deficiency to Difference

Yale University, USA, caroline.gray{at}yale.edu

In this article, I argue that the study of disability would be thoroughly enriched if the insights offered by cultural sociology as well as recent work on civil society were applied to it. I illustrate this point by offering my own interpretation of contrasting discourses of disability and their relationship to major narrative frameworks of disability. I describe how these narrative frameworks are dependent on a symbolic code that distinguishes between the abilities and inabilities of the physical body.

Key Words: assimilation • civil society • disability • hyphenation • multiculturalism • narratives • rights

Cultural Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 317-332 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1749975509105537


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