• DOI:10.1080/09687590220148487
Corpus ID: 17324956

Negotiating Psycho-emotional Dimensions of Disability and their Influence on Identity Constructions

@article{Reeve2002NegotiatingPD,
  title={Negotiating Psycho-emotional Dimensions of Disability and their Influence on Identity Constructions},
  author={Donna Reeve},
  journal={Disability & Society},
  year={2002},
  volume={17},
  pages={493 - 508}
}

Donna Reeve

Published 2002

Psychology

Disability & Society

This paper uses Foucault's concept of 'technologies of power' to explore the ways in which the psycho-emotional dimensions of disability are created and maintained within society. The manner in which gaze and self-surveillance operate on the bodies of people with impairments to leave them feeling worthless, unattractive and stressed is considered, and the effects of impairment on these processes are also discussed. However disabled people are not simply passive victims of this form of emotional… CONTINUE READING

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