This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, cla…
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Louise J. Lawrence presents provocative re-interpretations of biblical characters that have previously been sidelined and stigmatised on account of their perceived disability. She introduces approaches taken from Sensory Anthropology and Disability Studies to bring fresh methodo…
Mon premier livre.En 1999, j'ose en effet le grand saut : écrire ! Dans ce premier ouvrage, j'ai voulu tout d'abord témoigner d'un état d'esprit : la joie au cœur de l'épreuve, la joie de progresser sur les chemins hasardeux de l'existence. J'ai donc imaginé ce qui se serait pas…
Mon premier livre.En 1999, j'ose en effet le grand saut : écrire ! Dans ce premier ouvrage, j'ai voulu tout d'abord témoigner d'un état d'esprit : la joie au cœur de l'épreuve, la joie de progresser sur les chemins hasardeux de l'existence. J'ai donc imaginé ce qui se serait pas…
"The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities,…
Beginning with disability: a primer
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"Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and under…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding. Philosophers are beginning to grasp the complexity of disability-as a category, with respect to well-being and as a marker of identity. However, the philosophical literature on justice and hu…
Disability and culture
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This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about h…
L'auteure dresse un portrait de ce que représente les relations interpersonnelles dans la vie des couples où une des deux personnes vit avec un handicap. L'intimité, les soins et les tabous y sont traités.
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society : people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were bein…