People with Disabilities

While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay animation, puppets, pixilation, and computer-generated...

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants...

Dr. Temple Grandin discusses the real issues that parents, teachers, and kids face every day. Here is a concise handbook that illustrates what Temple has found to work in the field of education. Topics include: The importance of early intervention...

This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274107Author Steven K KappFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More...

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424755Author Micheline MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some...

This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who require clinical procedures,...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10". This book engages with the concept that dwarfism's most prominent feature - body...

In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses...

The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the...

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Camphill movement, one of the world's largest and most enduring networks of intentional communities, deserves both recognition and study. Founded in Scotland at...

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame...

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court...

AASECT Book Award for General Audience'A joy to read' ESSIE DENNIS'A beautifully written collection' JUNO ROCHEWe're here. We're queer. We're fat.This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354982Author Nicole BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739608606Author Sarah FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MartelloPublisher MartelloDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 15mm

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which...

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the...

In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before...

How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigmaIllness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness...

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472075348Author Joshua St. PierreFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Disability and Political Representation explores how disabled people experience the various stages and aspects of the representation process, drawing upon extensive empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative data. It discusses why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648410352Author Annie CarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 45Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563685293Author Barbara BodnerjohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563683695Author Martha SheridanFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In addressing Western discourse on disability, Stiker examines the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society and asserts his own view that difference is not only acceptable but desirable and...

HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses--for instance,...

Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the...

Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has, this book asks how we...

Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not,...

The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The...

This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and...

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.Population Control explores the relational...

The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. However,...