Print version: Simplican, Stacy Clifford, 1978- Capacity contract : intellectual disability and the question of citizenship. Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2015 ix, 181 pages ISBN 9780816694037
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.