TY - BOOK AU - Simplican,Stacy Clifford TI - The capacity contract: intellectual disability and the question of citizenship SN - 9780816694037 PY - 2015/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY KW - CIVIL RIGHTS KW - HUMAN RIGHTS KW - SELF ADVOCACY KW - PARTICIPATION KW - CITIZENSHIP KW - EQUALITY KW - DEMOCRACY KW - DISABILITY STUDIES KW - POLITICAL PARTICIPATION N1 - Machine generated contents note: Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability -- 1. Locke's Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy -- 2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect -- 3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory -- 4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement -- 5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index N2 - "An unprecedented look at democratic theory’s disability exclusion and today’s self-advocacy movement. Taking seriously democratic promises of equality and inclusion, The Capacity Contract rejects conceptions of political citizenship that privilege cognitive capacity and, instead, centers such citizenship on action that is accessible to all people. As the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics." PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE ER -