In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of -the reasonable- to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of -youth- and -disability- been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of -youth- and -disability- alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that -youth- and -disability- have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long. With chapters focusing on access and youth culture, independence, autonomy and disabled people-s movements, and the body, gender and sexuality, this volume-s intersectional and transdisciplinary engagement with social theory offers a significant contribution to existing theoret
