Disability category: 614 books
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the...
No Right to Be Idle
The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans...
Rhetorical Touch
Disability, Identification, Haptics
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds,...
Scapegoat
Why We Are Failing Disabled People
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Every few months there’s a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It’s easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable...
Just Jill
The Autobiography of Jill Allen-King OBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Just Jill is an inspirational and moving account of one woman’s triumph over adversity and how she used her own experience of disability to benefit others.When she was growing up during the 1940s very few people were aware that Jill Allen-King had lost one eye as the result of measles when she was...
by Michael Oliver, Colin Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Author platform: Taylor is well known in disability studies, arts, and activist circles and an experienced public speaker, with appearances at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, California College for the Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the New School,...
by Paul Longmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race,...
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
On the Margins of Citizenship provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability advocacy and politics her entire life, draws upon a broad range of historical and legal documents as...
Studying Disability Arts and Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
In this practical introduction to the study of Disability Arts and Culture, Petra Kuppers draws on a wide range of examples, exercises and activities to introduce the key artists and theoretical concepts in this diverse field. Comprehensive and accessible, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in the disabled body in performance.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...
Cultures of Representation
Disability in World Cinema Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a...
Aesthetic Nervousness
Disability and the Crisis of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled...
I’M Not Here to Inspire You
Essays on Disability from a Regular Guy Living with Cerebral Palsy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
In this collection of essays, Rob J. Quinn offers insights on his own experiences as a man living with cerebral palsy and challenges the perceptions of people with disabilities offered by the able-bodied world. Many of the pieces are meant to give teens and young adults living with physical disabilities...