Disability: Social Aspects

Published for over a decade, this resource guide continues to be a successful, sought-after resource, providing valuable information to professiona...

A much-needed guide to dating--from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more--from disabled essayist and author Jessica Slice and ...

In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing ...

If the question is How do you raise anti-ableist kids? the answer is Become anti-ableist and then model it through intention and action for your ch...

Setting a case study of deaf peoples leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, th...

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities opera...

'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton'Everyone should read this book. Sophie Morgan is...

On the precipice of starting her adult life, aged eighteen, Sophie, a rebellious and incorrigible wild child, crashed her car and was instantly par...

Video games are both physically and cognitively demandingso what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem...

Video games are both physically and cognitively demandingso what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem...

Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever m...

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjam...

Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the da...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE...

A much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives In an emergency, we often look to media: to contact authorities, to...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era w...

Autism was only identified and recognised relatively recently, but even so one might have expected the church to have moved further in its thinking...

In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (18831938) was best known for ...

In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (18831938) was best known for ...

Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twenti...