Disability: social aspects books

6417 books were found.

Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era

Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans...

Author: Evan P. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780252046162
Format: Hardback
$242.00

As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World...  Read More >>

Eradicating Deafness?: Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America

Eradicating Deafness?: Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity...

Author: Marion Andrea Schmidt
ISBN: 9781526182395
Format: Paperback
$45.99

How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology...  Read More >>

Controversies and Disputes in Disability and Rehabilitation

Controversies and Disputes in Disability and Rehabilitation...

Author: Roland Meinert (University of Missouri, USA) ,  Francis Yuen
ISBN: 9781032928616
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Experts in the field of disability analyze nine controversies and disputes of particular interest to professional...  Read More >>

The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability: Processes and Embodiments

The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability: Processes...

Author: Helen Meekosha ,  Karen Soldatic
ISBN: 9781032928432
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book breaks new ground in disability scholarship, southern...  Read More >>

Enacting Disability Critical Race Theory: From the Personal to the Global

Enacting Disability Critical Race Theory: From the Personal...

Author: Beth A. Ferri (Syracuse University, USA) ,  David J. Connor (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781032461601
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited volume foregrounds Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as an intersectional framework that has...  Read More >>

Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism

Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People...

Author: Erin Pritchard (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032465951
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book introduces the critical term ‘midgetism’, which the author has coined, to demonstrate that the socio-cultural...  Read More >>

Disability as Meta Curriculum: Epistemologies, Ontologies, and Transformative Praxis

Disability as Meta Curriculum: Epistemologies, Ontologies,...

Author: Gillian Parekh (York University, Canada) ,  Elizabeth J. Grace (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781032172194
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies’ approaches to curriculum are doing more than...  Read More >>

The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame: Interdisciplinary Approaches

The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing...

Author: Marlene Goldman (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032205557
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Performing Shame shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its...  Read More >>

Autism: Perspectives from Africa (Volume I)

Autism: Perspectives from Africa (Volume I)

Author: Mary Clasquin-Johnson ,  Dikeledi Mahlo
ISBN: 9781032430805
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book contributes to the body of knowledge on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the African perspective. The...  Read More >>

Disabled Witchcraft: 95 Rituals for Limited-Spoon Practitioners

Disabled Witchcraft: 95 Rituals for Limited-Spoon Practitioners...

Author: Kandi Zeller
ISBN: 9781648414305
Format: Hardback
$34.99

Through nearly a hundred inclusive (and sometimes spicy) magickal rituals designed for witches with disabilities...  Read More >>

Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era

Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans...

Author: Evan P. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780252088247
Format: Paperback
$57.99

As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World...  Read More >>

Disability in the Workplace: The Politics of Difference

Disability in the Workplace: The Politics of Difference...

Author: Jonathon S. Breen ,  Susan J. Forwell (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032116112
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book introduces the difference model of disability. Framed within an affect-based understanding of the relationships...  Read More >>

Inclusion in Tourism: Understanding Institutional Discrimination and Bias

Inclusion in Tourism: Understanding Institutional Discrimination...

Author: Susan Slocum
ISBN: 9781032186207
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Inclusion in Tourism provides examples of discrimination and marginalisation in tourism practices and avenues designed...  Read More >>

Climate Change in an Aging Society

Climate Change in an Aging Society

Author: Harry R. Moody
ISBN: 9781032386379
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance:...  Read More >>

Images of Disability on Television

Images of Disability on Television

Author: Guy Cumberbatch ,  Ralph Negrine (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781032376042
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1992, Images of Disability on Television examines the frequency and nature of disability on television...  Read More >>

Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power

Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power

Author: Asha Hans (Dev Research Inst, Bhubaneswar)
ISBN: 9781032795935
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society...  Read More >>

Living with Chronic Illness: The Experience of Patients and Their Families

Living with Chronic Illness: The Experience of Patients...

Author: Robert Anderson ,  Michael Bury
ISBN: 9781032831824
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness­–from perspective...  Read More >>

Disabled Children and Young People in Sport, Physical Activity and Physical Education

Disabled Children and Young People in Sport, Physical...

Author: Anthony J. Maher (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Justin A. Haegele (Old Dominion University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032935584
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education...  Read More >>

A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice

A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice...

Author: Katie Tastrom
ISBN: 9798887440408
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Disability justice and prison abolition are two increasingly popular theories that overlap but whose intersection...  Read More >>

Deaf People, Injustice and Reconciliation: Signed Memories

Deaf People, Injustice and Reconciliation: Signed Memories...

Author: Hisayo Katsui ,  Maija Koivisto
ISBN: 9781032857046
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland...  Read More >>

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