Disability: Social Aspects

Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical ...

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...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the D...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the D...

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore curethe deeply held belief that body-minds considered br...

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 Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired...

Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and C...

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 Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired...

Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and C...

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...

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Published for over a decade, this resource guide continues to be a successful, sought-after resource, providing valuable information to professiona...

A much-needed guide to dating--from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more--from disabled essayist and author Jessica Slice and ...

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

If the question is How do you raise anti-ableist kids? the answer is Become anti-ableist and then model it through intention and action for your ch...

Setting a case study of deaf peoples leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, th...

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities opera...

'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton'Everyone should read this book. Sophie Morgan is...

On the precipice of starting her adult life, aged eighteen, Sophie, a rebellious and incorrigible wild child, crashed her car and was instantly par...

Video games are both physically and cognitively demandingso what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem...

Video games are both physically and cognitively demandingso what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem...

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...

Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the da...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE...

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...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

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