Challenging notions of what constitutes ''normal'' and ''pathological'' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as ''studies of ableism'' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be ''able'' rather than ''disabled''.

Challenging notions of what constitutes ''normal'' and ''pathological'' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as ''studies of ableism'' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be ''able'' rather than ''disabled''.