Disability: Social Aspects

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pr...

A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English i...

The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. In this collection, Susan Burch and Michael Rembis present essays that integrate criti...

A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales sha...

WINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Diversity, Inclusion & Equality FINALIST: National Indie Excellence Award 2023 - Social/Political Change F...

This is the first book on working with disabled people to take an aspirational, outcomes-focused approach to professional practice. It forms the fi...

Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a contemp...

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disabi...

Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese...

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video. Drawing from contemporary work in political the...

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video. Drawing from contemporary work in political the...

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the wide range and depth of sociological theory ...

Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cathe...

This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. Th...

In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but sig...

Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new ...