Disability: Social Aspects

Eliza Fricker gets it. Describing her perfectly imperfect experience of raising a PDA child, with societal judgements and internal pressures, it is...

In Blind Spot, Maud Rowell challenges readers to think differently about what they may take for granted, carrying them on a whirlwind tour through ...

This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyzes issues of parenting by mothe...

Taking Flight provides the essential information students with disabilities will need to be successful in college. Rather than just focusing on the...

Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting method (RPM) and facilitated...

Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of t...

Graeae has been a force for change in world-class theatre since it was founded in 1980, placing D/deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challen...

Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competition...

Scholars have long recognized the media''s role in shaping and reflecting the way we see the world, ourselves, and others. In particular, they have...

In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the rep...

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary d...

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease ...

In this groundbreaking book, Jill Harshaw explores the spiritual experiences of people with profound intellectual disabilities with regard to their...

Keep people with dementia fully engaged in daily life and help them maximise remaining functional skills by tapping into their innate abilities and...

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insight...

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is the principal federal agency supporting applied research, training, and...

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Mu...