Overview: Offers new approaches to disability theory.Interrogates the assumptions of capability and capacity.Engages with disability studies, gender studies, feminist studies, & Foucauldian studies, among other.In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how “bodies of latent potential,” a cultural attachment to the idea of body as potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better bodies. Vaahtera combines disability studies, cultural studies, feminist science studies, transgender studies, post-colonial studies, and Foucauldian genealogy to offer a provocative approach that interrogates
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