Books in our collection
The Disability Rights Movement
Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopaedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education.
Author Jay Dolmage brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center.
Defining the Boundaries of Disability: Critical Perspectives
This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology. [eBook]
DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education
This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today's most important issues in education.
Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education
Provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorize and conceptualize what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm. [eBook]
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
In Brilliant Imperfection, author Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure--the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed.
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behavior and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference. [eBook]
Undoing Ableism: Teaching About Disability in K-12 Classrooms
Conceptually grounded in disability studies, critical pedagogy, and social justice education, this book provides both a rationale as well as strategies for broad-based inquiries that allow students to examine social and cultural foundations of oppression, learn to disrupt ableism, and position themselves as agents of social change. By Priya Lalvani and Susan Baglieri.
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability: Insider Perspectives and Strategies for Counselors
The first textbook about the psychosocial aspects of disability to provide students and practitioners of rehabilitation counseling with vivid insight into the experience of living with a disability. [eBook]
Disabling Barriers -- Enabling Environments
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies. The book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters written by contributing authors, many of whom are disabled themselves.
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability
Explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. [eBook]
This Brain had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation
Author James Odato tells the story of Lucy Gwin, author, advocacy journalist, disability rights activist, feminist, and founder of Mouth magazine, who made her mark by helping those in "handicaptivity" find their voice.
Accessibility Denied: Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. [eBook]
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
In Crip Times, author Robert McRuer asserts that disabled people themselves are demanding that disability be central to our understanding of political economy and uneven development and suggests that, in some locations, their demand for disability justice is starting to register
Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies
By discussing challenges confronting people with disabilities and their families and by collecting numerous accounts of disability experiences, this volume firmly situates disability within broad social movements, policy, and areas of marginalization, providing a critical examination into the lived experiences of people with disabilities and how disability can affect identity. [eBook]
Disability and Academic Exclusion: Voicing the Student Body
In Disability and Academic Exclusion, author E. R. Weatherup interrogates obstacles the disabled have encountered in education, from a historical perspective that begins with the denial of literacy to minorities in the colonial era to the later centuries' subsequent intolerance of writing, orality, and literacy mastered by former slaves, women, and the disabled.
Signs of Disability
In Signs of Disability, Stephanie Kerschbaum offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of "dis-attention" and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings. [eBook]
(M)othering labeled children : bilingualism and disability in the lives of Latinx mothers
This book, by María Cioè-Peña, takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled. It showcases relationships between families and schools and reveals the myriad of ways in which school-based decisions regarding disability, language and academic placement impact family dynamics. [eBook]
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities.
Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies
Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments. [eBook]
Perspectives and Research on Play for Children with Disabilities: Collected Papers
Cover various approaches towards the theme of play for children with disabilities: barriers and facilitators to play, guidelines on accessibility and usability of toys and technologies, literature reviews and parents' and studies on educators' perspectives on play. Alongside these multifaceted points of view, some theoretical aspects emerge as a common background: theoretical perspectives, the vision of "play for the sake of play" and play as a fundamental right. [eBook]
Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
The writers of this work, Paul Jaeger and Cynthia Bowman, both having long personal experiences with disabilities, offer a holistic understanding of the lives of disabled individuals from representations in the media to issues of civil rights.
Disability Theory
Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, Disability Theory, by Tobin Siebers, revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to key critical and cultural questions.
Disability and Ageing: Towards a Critical Perspective
Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, author Ann Leahy engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the subjective experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research - people ageing with long-standing disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing. [eBook]