Disability: Social Aspects

Disability through the Lens of Justice offers a contextual framework for considering the limitations that disability places on individuals. Specifi...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, ...

Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education   How do students with intellectual disabilit...

Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people arti...

Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, ...

"Disability Aesthetics ambitiously redefines both 'disability' and 'aesthetics,' showing us that disability is central not only to modern art but a...

The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own   Every child in Regenc...

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic painAt the interse...

Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity looks at how disabilities are portrayed within the media and how individuals with disabiliti...

An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closenes...

The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools f...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in ...

Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Stud...