Disability category: 614 books
Disability and Human Rights
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Experienced by more than one billion people worldwide, disability is increasingly recognised as a human rights issue internationally. Completely up to date, Disability and Human Rights draws on cutting edge international research and real life examples to explore the global dimension of disability...
Mad at School
Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, critical pedagogy, literacy education, professional development for disability and learning specialists in access centers and student counseling centers, as well...
Barriers and Belonging
Personal Narratives of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives thatexplore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of disciplines from science and technology studies...
Negotiating Disability
Disclosure and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts...
Enabling Acts
The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become...
The Biopolitics of Disability
Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion”...
Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring...
Claiming Disability
Knowledge and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.
Claiming...
by Michael Gill, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ’charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
There are more opportunities than ever before for young people with disabilities to participate in sport and adapted physical education. For example, there are more than 3.7 million athletes worldwide aligned to the Special Olympics organisation, with national associations active in more than 200...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the person's social experiences. The term intersectionality has been used most often to discuss the ways in which the dual and simultaneous statuses of 'black' and "female' exist...
by Shelley Lynn Tremain
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical...
Defying Disability
The Lives and Legacies of Nine Disabled Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that disabled people get a fair deal.
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