Explores the history of disability activism, concentrating on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II to address federal disability policy. Through extensive archival research, the author…
This study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability and disability as a response to the gl…
This study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability and disability as a response to the gl…
This study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability and disability as a response to the gl…
"The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than inthe segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH students. In Language, Power, and R…
"In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability studies as well as autobiographical life-wri…