Disability: Social Aspects

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disabili...

This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major...

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body.Beginning with reflections on w...

Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national ...

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse ...

Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining...

Albinism is one of the foremost disability and public health issues in Africa today. It often makes headlines in local, national and international ...

Constructing the (M)other is a collection of personal narratives about motherhood in the context of a society in which disability holds a stigmatiz...

This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura...

This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace. It foregrounds the...

This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux’s 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identif...

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. From sidew...

Winner of the DHA 2014 Outstanding Publication Award. Since the end of the 20th century, «disability» has become a new and effective research inst...

"To think of PDA as merely involving demand avoidance is to me akin to thinking of tigers as merely having stripes."This book is a unique window in...

Estimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ...

This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70...

This insightful book investigates the experiences of seven women with autism as they transition from childhood to adulthood, and how they make sens...