Disability category: 614 books
Disability and Employer Practices
Research across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning...
The Measure of Manliness
Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of male...
Crises, Conflict and Disability
Ensuring Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps, as well as in post-disaster environments. Already...
Too Late to Die Young
Nearly True Tales from a Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life
Harriet McBryde Johnson isn't sure, but she thinks one of her earliest memories was learning that she will die. The message came from...
The Bioethics of Enhancement
Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore...
Reframing Disability?
Media, (Dis)Empowerment, and Voice in the 2012 Paralympics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "transform the perception of disabled people in society," and use sport to contribute to "a better world for all people with a disability."...
Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives
Finding a Voice of Their Own
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach...
The Development of Disability Rights Under International Law
From Charity to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality, dignity, autonomy, full participation,...
The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film
Plus Ultra Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies,...
Disabling Barriers
Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse...
by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet,...
Discovering Trinity in Disability
A Theology for Embracing Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As parents of three daughters, two of whom are labeled disabled, the authors explore the Scriptures and writings of early Christian thinkers to challenge conventional attitudes – and fears – toward those who are different. Drawing on their respective doctorates in Theology and Literature and their...
Psychology of Disability
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
The realities surrounding the psychological experience of disability, plus the intervention techniques used to resolve some of the problems, have changed dramatically since the publication of the first edition of this classic text. This revised edition describes changes that have come out of the Americans...