Disability: Social Aspects

The past 50 years have witnessed a transformation in the structure and function of families and households. The social and demographic catalysts fo...

This book takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is lab...

This book takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is lab...

Imagine a powerful listening experience that you want to share with others. You could describe it to someone with words, or you may choose a flashi...

In The Other Child, Linda Scotson looks at the impact on a child at the arrival of a handicapped sibling. Lili, Linda Scotsons daughter, was only t...

In Beyond Productivity, a wide range of contributors share honest narratives of the sometimes-impossible conditions that scholars face when complet...

'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form' Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean'Long before I...

Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotionsas does the monster. Told in lyric fragments, The Backwards Hand traces Matt Lees ...

It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to ...

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York Citys wide-ranging disability worlds...

Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked. This engaging and accessible graphic nove...

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York Citys wide-ranging disability worlds...

This is an infuriatingly gorgeous, important book and Liontas is a singular writer.  Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesSex ...

A wonderfully witty and fiercely passionate memoir on living with a disability, and how we can redefine what it means to be disabled.______________...

Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, s...

All too often, wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, designers dont take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account. Building Access inv...

Research suggests that about 1% of the world's population is on the autism spectrum. Discover the answers to common questions about living with neu...

Autistic people often feel they have to present as neurotypical or perform neurotypical social behaviours in order to fit in. So-called 'masking' i...

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opi...

The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive ret...

Navigating the world with an ADHD brain can be exhausting. The rollercoaster ride from clinical assessments through diagnosis to treatment can leav...

This is a seamless transition to the Guides Sixth. Ease your transition from Guides Fifth to Guides Sixth by first understanding and assessing the ...

This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posth...

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between wild and built environments for several years, few have...

In Building Theory in Political Communication, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus present the first generalizable conceptual framewor...

One in five families has a child with special health care needs-but medical and human service professionals often don't get the training they need ...

Speculation around the health of Paul the Apostle has been present since soon after his death. Recently scholars have understood Paul to be disable...

From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth...

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval p...

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with ...

'Defiant and dazzling'Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year'Essential reading'Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning'It raises the standard of nature ...