Disability: Social Aspects

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a facethe task seems impossible. The ...

How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped deaf person in area road sig...

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

Providing both a theoretical framework and practical strategies, this resource will help teachers, counselors, and related service providers develo...

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, ...

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introduci...

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Ca...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of soc...

'An engrossing, urgent, and entertaining read. I couldn't put it down' Roddy Doyle______Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a...

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences o...

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

How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigmaIllness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illne...

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic il...

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, ex...

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

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans...

A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the fie...

In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is normal have changed ...

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...

Just Care is Akemi Nishidas thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political econ...