Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Tom Shakespeare

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: From Activism to Academia
1 A Critical Condition
2 Independent Living and the Medical Model of Disability
3 Emancipating Disability Studies
PART TWO: The Developing Discipline
4 Sociology, Disability Studies and Education: Some Observations
5 The Social Model of Disability: A Sociological Phenomenon Ignored by Sociologists?
6 The Spectre at the Feast: Disabled People and Social Theory
7 The Best Burgers? The Person with Learning Difficulties as Worker
8 Researching a Disabling Society: The Case of Employment and New Technology
9 Oppression, Disability and Access in the Built Environment
10 Enabling Identity: Disability, Self and Citizenship
11 Body Battles: Bodies, Gender and Disability
12 Understanding Cinematic Representations of Disability
PART THREE: Debates and Dialogues
13 Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement
14 Still out in the Cold: People with Learning Difficulties and the Social Model of Disability
15 Disability Discourse in a Postmodern World
16 The Sociology of Disability: Towards a Materialist Phenomenology
17 Activists and Academics: Part of the Same or a World Apart?
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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