Tom Shakespeare

Dominic Davies

Kath Gillespie-Sells

Untold Desires

The Sexual Politics of Disability

Bringing together Tom Shakespeare's innovative work from over the past ten years, 'Disability Rights and Wrongs' presents an analysis of the key issues in disability studies. The text examines issues such as biological and social factors, the challenge to medicine and genetics, rhetoric and empowerment.

Disability Rights and Wrongs

Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including: The diversity of the disability experience; Disability rights and advocacy; Ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world; The daily realities of living with an impairment or illness; Health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people; Ethical issues at the beginning and end of life. Disability: The Basics aims to provide readers with an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people and highlight the continuing gaps and barriers in social responses to the challenge of disability. This book is suitable for lay people, students of disability studies as well as students taking a disability module as part of a wider course within social work, health care, sociology, nursing, policy and media studies.

The Basics

Disability

A collection of essays exploring the intellectual implications of a disability equality perspective. Leading social scientists draw on current theory and research and offer an overview of contemporary debates.

Social Science Perspectives

Disability Reader

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this exciting collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. New Directions in Disability Research opens by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multi-disciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that disabled people, such as homelessness, violence and unemployment. The third section turns to social care, and how disabled people are prevented from living with independence and dignity. Finally, the last section examines how different imagery and technology impacts our understandings of disability and Deafness. Showcasing empirical work from a range of countries, including Japan, Norway, Italy, Australia, India, the UK, Turkey, Finland and Iceland, this collection shows how disability studies can be simultaneously sophisticated, accessible and policy-relevant. New Directions in Disability Research is suitable for students and researchers in disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, nursing and health studies.

International Perspectives

Disability Research Today

Updated edition of the author's Disability rights and wrongs.

Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Mairian Corker

This text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability.

Embodying Disability Theory

Disability/postmodernity

Colin Barnes

Geof Mercer

This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

A Sociological Introduction

Exploring Disability

While the civil rights movement has put disability issues centre-stage, there has been minimal discussion of disabled people's sexuality. This book, based on first-hand accounts, takes a close look at questions of identity, relationships, sex, love, parenting and abuse and demolishes the taboo around disability and sex. It shows the barriers to disabled people's sexual rights and sexual expression, and also the ways in which these obstacles are being challenged. Variously moving, angry, funny and proud, The Sexual Politics of Disability is about disabled people sharing their stories and claiming their place as sexual beings. It is a pioneering work, and essential reading for anyone interested in disability or sexual politics.

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