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Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: Theorising ableism in academia

1. The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge: Towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures

2. I am not disabled: Difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves

3. Disclosure in academia: A sensitive issue

4. Fibromyalgia and me

5. A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education

6. Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy

7. 'But you don't look disabled': Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an 'insider' in disability research and 'other' in the disability movement and academia

8. Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity

9. Imposter

10. Internalised ableism: Of the political and the personal

11. From the personal to the political: Ableism, activism and academia

12. The violence of technicism: Ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment

13. A little bit extra

Concluding thoughts: Moving forward

Afterword

Index

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