Disability category: 614 books
Disability, Avoidance and the Academy
Challenging Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies...
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture
Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Disability policy is no longer an area that can be adequately addressed within major areas of public policy such as welfare, health, labor, and education. Disability has become widely acknowledged in recent decades, partly because of the increasing number of disabled citizens across all demographic...
Disability and Popular Culture
Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number...
International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability
Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources toward recruiting and retaining students with disabilities, are fuelling an explosion of research in the area of inclusive education. An important focus...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability
Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to Manifestos for the Future of Critical...
Concerto for the Left Hand
Disability and the Defamiliar Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way,...
by Alex Lubet
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Musical talent in Western culture is regarded as an extraordinary combination of technical proficiency and interpretative sensitivity. In Music, Disability, and Society, Alex Lubet challenges the rigid view of technical skill and writes about music in relation to disability studies. He addresses...
Disability and Mothering
Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book’s focus on the transitional moments and spaces where...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail....
by Dr Patrick McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Disability and Society: Ideological and Historical Dimensions explores the changing relationship between disability and society in Western culture from early modern times to the present, with a particular emphasis on Ireland. The author identifies the main ideologies and practices that have shaped the...
Disability and Academic Exclusion
Voicing the Student Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Disability and Academic Exclusion interrogates obstacles the disabled have encountered in education, from a historical perspective that begins with the denial of literacy to minorities in the colonial era to the later centuries’ subsequent intolerance of writing, orality, and literacy mastered by...
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability
Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical...