Disability category: 614 books
Picturing Disability
Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Bogdan and his collaborators have studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities in writing this book. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented but in a much wider range than we have ever seen before.
Diversity in Disney Films
Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities....
Deaf in the USSR
Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively—...
by Arie Rimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth century, and twenty-first-century efforts to promote community living policies domestically and internationally, particularly through the role of the United...
by Jennifer Esmail
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet...
Living Gently in a Violent World
The Prophetic Witness of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often-overlooked community—those with disabilities. In this fascinating...
Making Computers Accessible
Disability Rights and Digital Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind man expressed interest: One of the frustrating...
Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform
Our Voices, Our Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights...
Voices from the Edge
Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But what recourse do individuals have when enforcement of the law is ambiguous...
In Sickness and in Health
Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage
Ben Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello...
by Sheila Riddell, Nick Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically. It addresses conceptualisations of disability sport, explores the structure of the Paralympic Movement and considers key political...