Disability: Social Aspects

There are currently over 1.3 billion people globally who experience exclusion and inequality rooted in persistent and deep ableism. Quality researc...

Research suggests that approximately 129 million children and 366 million adults worldwide have ADHD. Discover the answers to common questions abou...

In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measurin...

People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a glob...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

This book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the ...

The inclusion of marginalised groups is a problem of modern democratic societies as representative democracy is built on principles which favour th...

Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. Carolyn Williamson searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the...

The stories of fathers caring for non-verbal children and how these experiences alter their understandings of care, masculinity, and living a full ...

In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered b...

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary non-drivers are disabled, lower i...

The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults wi...

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children, offering vital financial support to more than 19 m...

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major t...

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

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...

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...

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

In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883–1938) was best known for...

In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883–1938) was best known for...