Disability: Social Aspects

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of ...

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, un...

The new edition of this acclaimed text is an up-to-date introduction to the key themes, research, and controversies in disability studies. The auth...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes th...

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find outand the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems t...

A history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used ...

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this mo...

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the col...

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans Lite...

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices When Alison Piepmeierscholar of feminism and disability studies, and mo...

Disability-inclusive development is an essential condition for a sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustai...

The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disabling

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss o...

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a facethe task seems impossible. The ...

How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped deaf person in area road sig...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, ...

Providing both a theoretical framework and practical strategies, this resource will help teachers, counselors, and related service providers develo...

Disability through the Lens of Justice offers a contextual framework for considering the limitations that disability places on individuals. Specifi...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, ...

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introduci...

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Ca...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of soc...

'An engrossing, urgent, and entertaining read. I couldn't put it down' Roddy Doyle______Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a...

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences o...

Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education   How do students with intellectual disabilit...

How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigmaIllness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illne...

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic il...

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, ex...

Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, ...

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans...

A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the fie...

In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is normal have changed ...

The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own   Every child in Regenc...

Just Care is Akemi Nishidas thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political econ...

Just Care is Akemi Nishidas thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political econ...

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic painAt the interse...

Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity looks at how disabilities are portrayed within the media and how individuals with disabiliti...

Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a hi...