Author: Tobin Anthony Siebers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disability, discourses, theory, corporealities
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-06-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472050397
ISBN-13: 9780472050390

"Disability Theory is just the book we’ve been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the ’social model’ of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they’re all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays. Disability Theory is a field-defining book: and if you’re curious about what ’disability’ has

Author: Susan Schweik
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: disability, history, public, ugly, laws
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 081474057X
ISBN-13: 9780814740576

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability studies, law, and the arts.In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in its historical context and exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws join the history of the disabled

Authors:Mairian Corker, Tom Shakespeare,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: disability, theory, postmodernity, embodying
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-04-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826450555
ISBN-13: 9780826450555

With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, this text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. Organized into three sections, the volume opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, the body and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design; while the final section explores social practice with papers discussing issues whic

Author: Ruth Colker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: disability, policy, series, law, perspective, unequal, separate
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2008-12-04
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521713811
ISBN-13: 9780521713818

This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an "anti-subordination perspective," Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals with disabilities. In some contexts, she argues for more tolerance of disability-specific programs and, in other contexts, she argues for more disability-integrated programs. Her highly practical investigation includes the topics of K-12 education, higher education, employment, voting, and provision of

Author: Linda Hamilton Krieger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disability, corporealities, discourses, rights, backlash, reinterpreting, ada
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-03-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472068253
ISBN-13: 9780472068258

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act’s effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA’s reach, another decisio

Authors:Barbara M. Altman, Sharon N Barnartt,
Publisher: JAI Pre
Keywords: disability, measurement, research, social, comparative, science, moving, views, measures, volume, international
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2006-07-21
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0762312823
ISBN-13: 9780762312825

Disability policy has become an increasingly important issue in countries around the world. More and more, as populations are exposed to war and civil conflicts, natural disasters, environmental poisons along with the effects of normal aging, accidents and poverty, disability has become a growing public health and civil rights problem. In order to develop reasonable policy solutions, countries need accurate, reliable estimates of the size and make up of their disabled population. Comparisons of policy solutions cross-nationally require that the data that is used as the basis for the policy dec

Authors:Lauri Umansky,  Paul Longmore,
Publisher: NYU Pre
Keywords: disability, history, perspectives, american, new
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0814785646
ISBN-13: 9780814785645

Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in print, on virtually every page of American history. Yet historians have only recently begun the deep excavation necessary to retrieve lives shrouded in religious, then medical, and always deep-seated cultural, misunderstanding. This volume opens up disability’s hidden history. In these pages, a North Carolina Youth finds his identity as