The body as disability and possability: theorizing the ‘leaking, lacking and excessive’ bodies of disabled children

Dan Goodley; Katherine Runswick-Cole

doi:10.1080/15017419.2011.640410

The body as disability and possability: theorizing the ‘leaking, lacking and excessive’ bodies of disabled children

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 15 (2013): Issue 1

By: Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole

Open Access

|Feb 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2011.640410 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 1 - 19

Submitted on: Nov 30, 2010

Accepted on: Sep 30, 2011

Published on: Feb 1, 2013

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Keywords:

leaky bodies,

disabled children,

critical disability studies

© 2013 Dan Goodley, Katherine Runswick-Cole, published by Stockholm University Press
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