"The book's overarching message is an important one: The experience of most people with disabilities is not what nondisabled persons anticipate--contrary to the latter's beliefs and expectations, the former can lead full and normal lives. Thus, The Social Psychology of Disabilit…
"An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present. Further, A.J. Withers examines when, how and…
Highlights the equal and effective enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities. Discusses a number of related issues: the shift from the traditional "medical model" of disability to securing the rule of law and human rights; the interdependency between civil and polit…
Stigmate: les usages sociaux des handicaps
by Goffman, Erving, Kihm, Alain
fromLe sens commun
Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or "crip times." Throughout "Crip …
"This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an internationa…
Since the end of the 20th century' disability has become a new and effective research instrument. One of the most important fields that currently make use of disability as an analytical tool is history. This book is structured into four main parts: Challenging methodologies, pow…
This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship. This book explores the poss…
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted such traits as symptoms of sexual repression, or as met…