Disability: social aspects Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Disability in Higher Education
Book SynopsisCreate campuses inclusive and supportive of disabled students, staff, and faculty Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach examines how disability is conceptualized in higher education and ways in which students, faculty, and staff with disabilities are viewed and served on college campuses. Drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks, research, and experience creating inclusive campuses, this text offers a new framework for understanding disability using a social justice lens. Many institutions focus solely on legal access and accommodation, enabling a system of exclusion and oppression. However, using principles of universal design, social justice, and other inclusive practices, campus environments can be transformed into more inclusive and equitable settings for all constituents. The authors consider the experiences of students, faculty, and staff with disabilities and offer strategies for addressing ableism within a variety of settings, includingTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii About the Authors xxv Introduction: A Social Justice Foundation 1 Part One: Foundational Concepts 9 1 A History of Disability in Higher Education 11 Deaf Education 13 Influence of War Veterans 23 Disability Activism 33 Conclusion 45 Discussion Questions 46 Appendix: Significant Moments in the History of Disability in the United States 46 2 Disability Models 54 Established Models 55 Critical Approaches to Disability 66 Social Justice (Ableist or Disability Oppression) Model 71 Emerging Models 76 Conclusion 78 Discussion Questions 80 Appendix: Summary of Disability Models 81 3 Disability, Law, and Education in the United States 91 Historical Overview 92 Legislative Implications 101 Pending and Future Legal Issues 110 Conclusion 120 Discussion Questions 120 4 Dimensions of Impairment and Disability 122 Creating Categories and Labels 123 Categorizing Impairment 125 Impairments Commonly and Increasingly Seen in College Populations 131 Conclusion 139 Discussion Questions 139 Part Two: Population-Specific Experiences 141 5 Disability Identity Development and Multiple Aspects of Identity 143 Multiple and Intersecting Social Identities 144 Disability Identity Development in College Students 145 Self-Identification as Disabled 155 Social Identities 157 Areas for Future Research 168 Implications for Higher Education 169 Conclusion 172 Discussion Questions 173 6 Student Populations 174 Adult Learners 176 Community College Students 177 Transfer Students 180 English Language Learners and English as an Additional Language 181 First-Generation Students 182 International Students 183 Parenting Students 184 Student Athletes 186 Students of Size 187 Undocumented Students 189 Veterans 191 Favorite Hobbies, Yappy Dogs, and Now What? 193 Conclusion 195 Discussion Questions 196 7 Faculty and Staff with Disabilities 197 Perspectives on Disabled Faculty and Staff 199 Barriers That Disabled Faculty and Staff Face in Higher Education 204 Experiences of Disabled Staff and Faculty 209 Creating an Inclusive Climate 214 Conclusion 220 Discussion Questions 221 Part Three: Environmental Issues 223 8 The Campus Environment 225 Physical Environment 226 Organizational Environment 227 The Human Aggregate 230 Social Construction of Disability 237 Creating Campus Environments That Support Students with Impairments 240 Creating a Socially Just Campus Environment 249 Conclusion 251 Discussion Questions 251 9 The Campus Climate 253 Definition of Climate 254 The Campus-Based Experiences of Impaired Students 255 The Impact of Climate on Disabled Students 260 Studying Campus Climate 263 Transforming the Campus Climate 268 Conclusion 272 Discussion Questions 273 10 Universal Design 274 Principles of Universal Design 275 The Evolution From Barrier-Free Design to Universal Design 277 Application of Universal Design in Higher Education 280 Universal Design in Instruction 284 Critiques of Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning 295 Universal Design and Social Justice 298 Resources for Additional Information 300 Conclusion 301 Discussion Questions 302 11 Assistive and Learning Technology 303 History of Assistive Technology 304 Accessible, Adaptive, and Universally Designed Technology 305 Guidelines for Accessible Design 308 Technology as an Accommodation 312 Barriers and Inaccessible Technology 313 Legal Requirements for Technology and Postsecondary Education 316 Eight Steps to Creating an Accessible Campus Technology Culture 319 Conclusion 322 Discussion Questions 323 12 Classroom Instructional Interventions 324 Current Practice 325 Effective Classroom Practices 331 Practices of Specific Academic Disciplines 337 Alternative Instructional Approaches 343 Conclusion 350 Discussion Questions 351 Part Four: Serving Students 353 13 Disability Resource Offices 355 Historical Overview of Disability Resources 356 Disability Resources Today 357 Core Activities of Disability Resource Offices 363 Considerations for the Future of Disability Resources 379 Conclusion 380 Discussion Questions 381 14 Student Affairs 382 Persistence, Retention, and Graduation of Students with Disabilities 383 Importance of Knowledge About Disability in Student Affairs 386 Universal Design in Student Affairs 388 Functional Areas in Student Affairs 390 Conclusion 410 Discussion Questions 410 15 Transitions and Student Affairs 411 Entering Postsecondary Education 412 Transitions During Postsecondary Education 425 Exiting Postsecondary Education 431 Conclusion 437 Discussion Questions 437 Conclusion: A Social Justice Approach to Disability in Higher Education: Strategies for Inclusion 438 Strategies for Creating More Socially Just Campuses 440 Conclusion 447 References 448 Index 501
£33.24
Kogan Page Positively Purple
Book SynopsisKate Nash OBE is a change leader with over 30 years' experience in working strategically to effect long term changes in relation to disabled people. She is the creator & CEO of PurpleSpace (www.purplespace.org). Established in 2015 it is the world's only professional development membership hub for disability employee resource groups.In 2017 she founded #PurpleLightUp, a global movement of disabled people, allies and champions who celebrate the economic contribution of disabled people to the global economy. This takes place on 3rd December each year as a mark of respect to the UN International Day of Disabled People. Prominent landmarks that have been illuminated include The Shard in London, Blackpool Tower, John F Kennedy Airport, Niagara Falls, Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Australian Parliament. She is based in London, UK.Trade Review"Positively Purple should be required reading for every FTSE 250 CEO. Business leaders need to understand and value 'human capital'. Kate Nash is an expert in helping us recognise the value of every human - including those with disabilities." * Ian Stuart, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC UK Bank plc *"Positively Purple is a tale about the talent and potential of people with disabilities. Any CEO wanting to test the robustness of their disability strategy should understand the politics of disability. Kate Nash's personal story told with brutal honesty, is a compelling read and full of practical lessons." * Duncan Tait, Chief Executive, Inchcape plc *"Global multinationals like GSK, increasingly choose to learn directly from their employees with disabilities. Building disability confidence from the inside out by investing in a disability employee resource group will make the journey so much easier. Kate's personal story shows us how to supercharge the disability inclusion revolution and create a better, more accessible, working world." * Andy Garrett, GSK Workplace Adjustments Service Programme Director, Global co-lead GSK Disability Confidence Network *"It's hard for me to talk about Kate and her work without sounding like I am always using hyperbole. I find Kate Nash's presence throughout Positively Purple inspiring. Her words embolden the reader to participate as proactive protagonists in the fight for equity. The path she outlines uses lessons from other equality and identity dimensions but adds a particular magic, unique to Kate herself. This book is essential reading for anyone who would call themselves an ally of equity at work. My team and I are all avid fans of Kate and grateful for all her lessons and practical actions." * John Amaechi OBE, APS *"Kate Nash has managed to do what no one before her has ever done. Positively Purple is the manuscript for living life and creating epic change for people with disabilities. Kate's special brand of combined grace and spicy wit helps us quite literally feel better for life. She has taught us how to feel good and change the world simultaneously as shown by empirical data. Prepare to have a hard time putting the book down." * Belinda May, Partner & Co-Chair, Dentons US LLP Disability/Accessibility ERG Affinity Group *"Positively Purple is an incredibly powerful and positive view into Kate's world and the invaluable work she continues to do to raise awareness of the challenges millions face daily. Kate Nash delves into the world of work, which for many is a minefield, and opens the door by providing tangible suggestions for people with disabilities and those who are looking to hire the best talent!" * Steve Ingham, Chief Executive, PageGroup *"An unrelentingly positive read! Brilliantly weaves her story with the must-read practical advice for employers. Show how employers can lead as allies to create a powerful movement for change, in delivering an inclusive workplace and society." * Mark Hodgkinson, Chief Executive, Scope *"There is nothing inevitable about progress - it takes relentless campaigning and great campaigners. Kate Nash is one of those people. Her insights into how to create a space without fear of getting it wrong and the importance of positive campaigning should be read by every social change campaigner." * Tiernan Brady, Global Director of Inclusion, Clifford Chance LLP *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Disability identity; Chapter - 02: Nature, nurture and a new reality; Chapter - 03: The soft bigotry of low expectation; Chapter - 04: Who do I want to be when I grow up?; Chapter - 05: Disability is a political experience; Chapter - 06: Build your network to get ahead; Chapter - 07: Lonely in a crowd; Chapter - 08: Eradicating shame; Chapter - 09: Ensuring an organization is better for having you there; Chapter - 10: Getting on at work, rather than simply getting in ; Chapter - 11: Starting a long-haul strategy to change the world; Chapter - 12: The third phase of change: when movements take off; Chapter - 13: Building disability confidence from the inside out; Chapter - 14: The futurists; Chapter - 15: Afterword; Chapter - 16: Notes
£44.65
Temple University Press,U.S. Dont Call Me Inspirational
Book SynopsisA disabled woman confronts body image, sexuality, bias, discrimination and condescension as she fashions an independent and fulfilling lifeTrade Review"I've known Harilyn Rousso as a powerful activist and gifted artist, but with this revelatory book, she becomes something even more rare: a storyteller who conveys her uniqueness, and so helps us to discover our own. Don't Call Me Inspirational is irresistible to read, honest, insightful and universal."-Gloria Steinem "Don’t Call Me Inspirational is stunning, a pleasure to read. Rousso’s outstanding book is both a beautifully written memoir about growing up in the 1950s and a critical historical analysis of disability politics. The author moves through her life, diving into gender/sexuality/embodiment/disability politics with grace and honesty. Nothing is simply resolved; rather, it is lived, moved through, engaged, struggled over, and then revisited."—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI Close Encounters with the Clueless1 Who’s Harilyn?2 Birth, Mine3 Close Encounters with the Clueless4 The Beggar and the Cripple5 The Stare 6 Always the Other 7 Why I am Not Inspirational8 HomeII On Leaving Home9 Wedding Day, 193310 Dancing11 Exploding Beans12 My Sister13 Adolescent Conversation14 On Leaving Home15 Hideous Shoes16 Driving High17 Eli18 My Father, Myself19 Driving away from HomeIII On Not Looking in the Mirror20 Walk Straight!21 On Not Looking in the Mirror22 Facing My Face23 Meditations on Speech and Silence24 Daring Digits25 Right-Hand Painting26 Being Only One: Some Meditations on SolitudeIV What's a Woman?27 What’s a Woman?28 He Was the One29 Blank Page30 Buying the Wedding Dress31 First Date32 First Night33 Mixed Couple34 Sylvester35 Faces of Eve36 Tough Bird37 Hand in HandV Why Claim Disability?38 Finding My Way 39 Keeping the Distance40 That “Inspirational” Label41 Token of Approval42 Disabled Women’s Community43 The Story of Betty, Revisited44 Listening to Myself45 Activist Sisters46 Toilet Troubles47 My Mentoring Project48 Why Claim Disability?49 Broken Silences50 Eulogy for My Nondisabled Self51 Eulogy for My Freakish Self52 Ode to My Disabled Self
£19.94
Temple University Press,U.S. Disability and Passing
Book SynopsisWhy passing is a crucial concept in disability studiesTrade Review "Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson’s collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf." --Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan"Disability and Passing is innovative in its use of disability to analyze both the acts and ideologies of passing from a wide range of theoretical, topical, and disciplinary perspectives. The essays are strong and smart—some are brilliant."--Kim E. Nielsen, Professor of Disability Studies and History, University of Toledo, and author of A Disability History of the United States Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 IntroductionJeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of DisabilityDaniel J. Wilson3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public DiscourseJeffrey A. Brune4 The Menstrual MasqueradeDavid Linton5 “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American SouthDea H. Boster6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the BusPeta Cox7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and SportMichael A. Rembis8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual DisabilityAllison C. Carey9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationKristen C. HarmonContributorsIndex
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Vulnerable Constitutions
Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Vulnerable Constitutions
Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Allies and Obstacles
Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complexand often tenserelationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dyTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Allies and Obstacles
Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Making Their Days Happen
Book SynopsisThrough a compelling combination of policy analysis and humanizing detail of both consumers and providers of PAS, this book appeals to students, scholars, and patients of these services who are considering use of self-directed PAS alike.
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Elusive Kinship
Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Elusive Kinship
Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Richard IIIs Bodies from Medieval England to
Book SynopsisThe story of a medieval king's disability traveling through time from Shakespeare's hands to todayTrade Review“Wilson explores the many meanings of Shakespeare’s masterpiece in performance and as text and of Richard III as an historical figure in a wide-ranging study that offers careful and approachable close readings that will interest actors, directors, playgoers, scholars, and the general reader. While Richard’s body is center stage in this reception history, Wilson’s spotlight is also on the audience. This book makes a strong case for Richard’s centrality to disability studies and is a hugely enjoyable read.”—Essaka Joshua, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature“Erudite, original, and thoughtful, Jeffrey Wilson’s Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity is a vital resource for anyone studying disability history, stigmatized bodies, and the historiography of monarchy. Chapters range widely across medieval and early-modern visual representations of Richard and the presentation of Richard’s so-called hunch on stage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book also includes a fascinating account of contemporary performances and the political stakes in the twenty-first century of casting Richard as a person with a disability, as a person with a disability who culturally and politically identifies as Disabled, or as a person without a disability. The volume concludes with the felicitous coinage ‘historical presentism’ to discuss the study of Shakespearean adaptations and appropriations and reminds us why we still read about Richard, and perhaps why we still read Shakespeare at all.”—Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English at the University of Georgia, and editorof Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body"Wilson's perceptive and timely work...demonstrates succinctly that disability and its presence within Shakespeare’s Richard III and all subsequent interpretations of Richard’s body remain central to our understanding of Shakespeare’s role within English disability history.... [A]n excellent resource for anyone seeking to visualise and trace the undeniable shift in interpretations of Richard III’s physical body through time."—Cahiers Élisabéthains"[A] detailed and valuable performance history of Richard III and the play's relationship with disability. Through fascinating and often revelatory close reading of primary sources—both textual and visual—he immerses us in the character of Shakespeare's 'rudely stamp'd' king."—Times Literary Supplement
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Undoing Suicidism
Book SynopsisInUndoing Suicidism,Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people. Undoing Suicidismquestions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-provoking argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could better prevent unnecessary deaths. Offering a new queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, he invites us to imagine what could happen if we started thinking about (assisted) suicide from an anti-suicidTrade Review“Undoing Suicidism is a tremendous contribution to theorizations of living and dying. It is unsettling in the most productive manner and driven by a profound abolitionist philosophy of desires for death as the grounds for a richer, more responsive politics of life. Baril offers a compelling vision of justice for suicidal people that demands rethinking some of the most cherished ideals of liberal personhood.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability“In this important book Alexandre Baril offers a queercrip reframing of (assisted) suicide that explains and critically intervenes in suicidism (the oppression of suicidal people) and ableist, sanist, and ageist arguments about assisted suicide. Justice, care, and support for suicidal people requires questioning what Baril calls ‘compulsory aliveness’ and listening to, rather than criminalizing and pathologizing, suicidal people. This is an extraordinary and well-researched book. Baril’s care-full approach to this difficult topic makes a crucial contribution to queer, trans, feminist, and crip theories and challenges readers to rethink dominant responses to suicide.”—Kim Q. Hall, Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University, and author of Queering Philosophy“Undoing Suicidism is a daring, original, and paradigm-shifting book that directly challenges the taken-for-granted idea that suicidal thoughts and actions are unnatural, undesirable states that should always be prevented. Grounded in queer, trans, Mad, and crip theoretical frameworks, and deeply informed by the author’s first-hand experience as a suicidal person, Baril imagines a radically different world where the well-documented harms caused by suicidism and preventionist logic are replaced with practices of compassion and solidarity, which grant all people the freedom to explore, express, live with, and sometimes die by, suicide.”—Jennifer White, Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, and lead editor of Critical Suicidology: Transforming Research and Prevention for the 21st Century"[A] provocative critique of 'suicidism,' a form of 'structural oppression' that stigmatizes people who want to die.... Baril argues that the desire to die is valid and that assisted suicide should be available in some form to all 'suicidal people, regardless of their dis/abilities, health or age.'... Readers may agree with some of the author’s carefully argued points about the structural obstacles suicidal people face, and yet struggle to accept both his contention that 'there are no good or bad reasons for wanting to die' and his jarring critiques of 'compulsory aliveness.' This is sure to spark debate."—Publishers Weekly
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Temple University Press,U.S. Disability the Environment and Colonialism
Book SynopsisDrawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today. The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation. Contributors: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.
£88.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Disability the Environment and Colonialism
Book SynopsisDrawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today. The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation. Contributors: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.
£27.90
University of Toronto Press A Special Hell
Book SynopsisUsing rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of mentally defective children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta.Trade Review'Malacrida draws from a vast amount of documentation. Her book is packed with statistics and academic writing but leavened with direct testimony from inmates and staff. ...valuable for anyone with an interest in this dark period of institutional history.' -- Nelle Oosterom Canada's History Magazine, June-July, 2015Table of Contents1. Introducing the Michener Centre 2. Entering the Gulag, Leaving the World 3. Dehumanization as a Way of Life 4. Ordinary and Extraordinary Violence 5. Resisting the Institutional Order 6. Broken Promises: Education in the Institution 7. Training, Exploitation, and Community Dependency 8. Bad Medicine: Drugs, Research, and Ethics 9. Eugenics and Sexuality 10. But That's All in the Past, Isn't It? Appendix I: Research Participants - Biographical Information Appendix II: History, Power, and Access to Knowledge
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Inside Out
Book Synopsis‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed MurphyWhat does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two experts, ‘Ed Murphy’ and ‘Pattie Burt,’ for answers. Ed and Pattie, former inmates of institutions for the retarded, tell us in their own words.Their autobiographies are not always pleasant reading. They describe the physical, mental, and emotional abuses heaped upon them throughout their youth and young adulthood; being spurned, neglected, and ultimately abandoned by family and friends; being labelled and stigmatized by social service professionals armed with tests and preconceptions; being incarcerated and depersonalized by the state.Ed and Pattie survived these experiences—evidence, perhaps, of the indefatigable will of
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Bristol University Press Ageing with Disability
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability.Trade Review“This book is a significant contribution to the study of ageing and disability from a life course perspective. It provides a fascinating, theoretically well-informed treatise of how older people make sense of disability.” Professor Rafael Lindqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden“This significant and original collection will change perspectives on the interplay between ageing and disability in ways that will be wholly beneficial to older people and policy making alike.” Joanna Bornat, Emeritus Professor, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsAgeing with disability – An introduction ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman and Anna Whitaker; Time, age and the failing body. A long life with disability ~ Eva Jeppsson Grassman; Disability, identity and ageing ~ Lotta Holme; Is it possible to ‘age successfully’ with extensive physical impairments? ~ Annika Taghizadeh Larsson; Being one’s illness: on mental disability and ageing ~ Per Bülow and Tommy Svensson; In the shade of disability reforms and policy – parenthood, ageing and life-long care ~ Anna Whitaker; Ageing and care among disabled couples ~ Cristina Joy Torgé; Living and ageing with disability – summary and conclusion ~ Anna Whitaker and Eva Jeppsson Grassman.
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Bristol University Press A Companion to Criminal Justice Mental Health and
Book SynopsisThis unique and topical companion provides expert analyses that explore the interface between criminal justice and mental health. It consolidates scholarly analysis of theory, policy and practice and practical debates, in addition to the theoretical and ideological concerns surrounding risk assessment, treatment, control and management.Trade Review"An excellent reference point for students, researchers and practitioners and importantly offers an insight into crucial debates around each subject in addtion to simple definitions." Prison Service Journal“In a bloated criminal justice system, where mental health is by far the biggest issue, this important book ought to be a required resource for all those interested in mental health; especially those in power who have influence in a system and structure that poses significant challenges for all involved.” Eric Allison,The Guardian prisons correspondent"Key to understanding the 'care versus control' debate. The readers can contront the issue of how a legislative-led criminal justice system deals with mental health." Ashley Tiffen, University of Cumbria.“An original contribution that bridges an important gap in the criminal justice literature and reference base. This volume will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers and practitioners across multiple fields – criminology & criminal justice, social policy, social work and community justice.” Professor Majid Yar, University of Hull?“A highly pertinent, useful and user-friendly book. A must for personal and institutional libraries.” Professor Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa"Useful for reference purposes." Anne Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction; Companion entries A-Z; List of campaign groups and their website URLs; Legislation and Policy Index;
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Bristol University Press Madness Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.Trade Review"An enjoyable and thought-provoking introduction to the relationship between mental health problems and disability." Critical Social Policy"Significant and a must for undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of sociology, social theory and social policy." Disability and Society"A rewarding and frequently compelling read that does not shy away from grappling with the uncertainties surrounding its field of inquiry." LSE Review of Books"'Distress', 'disability', 'impairment', 'madness', 'recovery' – all are stress tested for their meanings and their options for social activism rehearsed. This is an invaluable book for students of the perennialy contested topic of mental health." David Pilgrim, Liverpool University"This text brings together insights from critical disability studies, mad studies and politicised analyses of mental health to develop a theoretical, empirical and activist response to wider conditions of disablement. The authors clearly demonstrate the potency of theory and the centrality of activism and this book will be of interest to anyone interested in developing politics in a time of austerity" Dan Goodley, Sheffield UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Jenny Morris; Introduction ~ Bob Sapey, Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson; Part One: Disjunctures between disability and madness; Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress ~ Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson; What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement ~ Jasna Russo and Debra Shulkes; Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability ~ Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly; Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability ~ William J Penson; Part Two: Theorising distress and disablement; Towards a socially situated model of mental distress ~ Jerry Tew; The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health ~ Jan Wallcraft and Kim Hopper; Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress ~ Donna Reeve; Part Three: Applying social models of disability; Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress ~ Shelley Briggs and Fiona Cameron; Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? ~ Frank Keating; Social models of disability and sexual distress ~ Meg John Barker and Alex Iantaffi; The social model of disability and suicide prevention ~ Helen Spandler interviews David Webb; Part Four: Universalising disability policy; Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ~ An interview with Tina Minkowitz; UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: out of the frying pan into the fire? Mental health service users and survivors aligning with the disability movement ~ Anne Plumb; The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity ~ China Mills; Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India ~ Bhargavi V Davar; Part Five: Meeting places; Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the Disabled People's Movement and the Mental Health System Survivors' Movement? ~ Steve Graby; Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? ~ Peter Beresford; 'It’s complicated': blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university ~ Kathryn Church; Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances ~ Mick McKeown and Helen Spandler; Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability ~ Jill Anderson, Helen Spandler and Bob Sapey.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Madness Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.Trade Review"An enjoyable and thought-provoking introduction to the relationship between mental health problems and disability." Critical Social Policy"Significant and a must for undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of sociology, social theory and social policy." Disability and Society"A rewarding and frequently compelling read that does not shy away from grappling with the uncertainties surrounding its field of inquiry." LSE Review of Books"'Distress', 'disability', 'impairment', 'madness', 'recovery' – all are stress tested for their meanings and their options for social activism rehearsed. This is an invaluable book for students of the perennialy contested topic of mental health." David Pilgrim, Liverpool University"This text brings together insights from critical disability studies, mad studies and politicised analyses of mental health to develop a theoretical, empirical and activist response to wider conditions of disablement. The authors clearly demonstrate the potency of theory and the centrality of activism and this book will be of interest to anyone interested in developing politics in a time of austerity" Dan Goodley, Sheffield UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Jenny Morris; Introduction ~ Bob Sapey, Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson; Part One: Disjunctures between disability and madness; Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress ~ Helen Spandler and Jill Anderson; What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement ~ Jasna Russo and Debra Shulkes; Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability ~ Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly; Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability ~ William J Penson; Part Two: Theorising distress and disablement; Towards a socially situated model of mental distress ~ Jerry Tew; The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health ~ Jan Wallcraft and Kim Hopper; Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress ~ Donna Reeve; Part Three: Applying social models of disability; Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women’s mental distress ~ Shelley Briggs and Fiona Cameron; Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? ~ Frank Keating; Social models of disability and sexual distress ~ Meg John Barker and Alex Iantaffi; The social model of disability and suicide prevention ~ Helen Spandler interviews David Webb; Part Four: Universalising disability policy; Advancing the rights of users and survivors of psychiatry using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ~ An interview with Tina Minkowitz; UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: out of the frying pan into the fire? Mental health service users and survivors aligning with the disability movement ~ Anne Plumb; The global politics of disablement: assuming impairment and erasing complexity ~ China Mills; Disabilities, colonisation and globalisation: how the very possibility of a disability identity was compromised for the ‘insane’ in India ~ Bhargavi V Davar; Part Five: Meeting places; Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the Disabled People's Movement and the Mental Health System Survivors' Movement? ~ Steve Graby; Distress and disability: not you, not me, but us? ~ Peter Beresford; 'It’s complicated': blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university ~ Kathryn Church; Solidarity across difference: organising for democratic alliances ~ Mick McKeown and Helen Spandler; Beyond the horizon: the landscape of madness, distress and disability ~ Jill Anderson, Helen Spandler and Bob Sapey.
£28.49
Bristol University Press Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
Book SynopsisThe British Welfare State initially seemed to promise welfare for all, but excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It also provides the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group and the Thalidomide campaign.Trade Review"Hampton’s monograph is important because it is the first to comprehensively synthesize the policy material on post-war disability. It will be essential reading for those in the growing field of disability history, providing much-needed and accessible context for the actions of central government." Twentieth Century British History"I hope and expect that this interesting contribution from Jameel Hampton...will reach the wide and diverse audience it deserves and also stimulate much-needed further research." - H-Disability"For the first time Hampton shows how disabled people, neglected by the post-war welfare state, changed things from the 1960s by campaigning, like other excluded groups, achieving inclusive reforms in the 1970s." Patricia Thane, Kings College London"Thoroughly researched and cogently argued, Disability and the Welfare State in Britain is a remarkable achievement. Hampton’s excavation and elucidation of archival material related to the Disability Income Group, as well as other key players in the debates over disability and statutory welfare in Britain in the twentieth century, is both important and impressive. Yet, readers with little experience in disability history, the history of twentieth-century Britain, or the modern welfare state, may find Hampton’s attention to detail daunting. Each chapter is so rich with information that one might find it most advantageous to attack the book one chapter at a time, formulating questions and critiques as one moves through this incredibly stimulating text. Given the seeming comprehensiveness with which Hampton articulates welfare debates within their specific contexts throughout the twentieth century, one can safely assume that Disability and the Welfare State in Britain will no doubt serve as an important benchmark for years to come." Michael Rembis, University of Buffalo, This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Oxford University PressTable of ContentsForeword by Nicholas Timmins; Introduction; The Old Regime: Provision before the Welfare State; Promotional Welfare, 1948-63; The Emergence of the General Classes, 1964-9; Cinderella of the Welfare State: Legislation for the General Classes, 1970-2; The Final Days: Disability at the End of the Welfare State, 1973-9; The Last Waltz: Epilogue; Summary and Conclusions, 1948-79.
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Bristol University Press Disabled People Work and Welfare
Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Led by the disability movement's concern with the employment choices faced by disabled people, this controversial book uses sociological and philosophical approaches, as well as international examples, to critically engage with possible alternatives to paid work for disabled people.Trade Review"Grover and Piggott offer a compelling challenge to those who view paid work as the only route out of poverty for disabled people. Their book should be essential reading for scholars of disability studies and social policy, and for policy makers interested in supporting disabled people." Colin Lindsay, University of StrathclydeTable of ContentsDisabled people, work and welfare ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott; Part One: Changing constructions of disability and welfare; Disabled people, conditionality and a civic minimum in Britain: reflections from qualitative research ~ Ruth Patrick and Deborah Fenney; Doing the 'hard yakka': implications of Australia's workfare policies for disabled people ~ Alan Morris, Shaun Wilson and Karen Soldatic; Part Two: Social policy, work and disabled people; Why are the policies and organisations seeking to help disabled people access work failing? ~ Bruce Stafford; Disabled people, welfare reform and the balance of rights and responsibilities ~ Dan Heap; Disabled people and employment in Poland ~ Monika Struck-Peregończyk; Disability and employment in the United States: the intersection of healthcare reform and welfare-to-work policy ~ Randall Owen, Robert Gould and Sarah Parker Harris; Social dialouge, partnership and the Danish model of activation of disabled people: challenges and possiblities in the face of austerity ~ David Etherington and Jo Ingold; Part Three: Assistance and access to paid work; Employment experiences and outcomes of young people in Scotland who are deaf or hard of hearing: intersections of deafness and social class ~ Mariela Fordyce and Sheila Riddell; Supply- and demand-side policies and the employment of learning disabled people in Britain ~ Sarah Woodin; How can integrated services help sick and disabled people remain in employment? Findings from an evaluation of an in-work support service in the North of England ~ Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra; Part Four: Alternatives to, and validated lives beyond, paid work; Thinking differently about 'work' and social inclusion for disabled people ~ Edward Hall and Robert Wilton; A right not to work and disabled people ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott; Disability, work and welfare: the disappearance of the polymorphic productive landscape ~ Alan Roulstone; Part Five: Conclusion; Themes in Disabled people, work and welfare ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott.
£29.44
Bristol University Press Direct Payments and Personal Budgets
Book SynopsisThis third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new research into the extension and outcomes of personal budgets. It is essential reading for students, practitioners and policy makers in social work and community care services.Trade Review"This book is essential reading for everyone involved in adult social care." British Journal of Social Work"A reminder of the optimistic origins of direct payments and personal budgets and an engaging account for new social workers of how these fit with the profession's origins and skills." Jill Manthorpe, Kings College London“This book is important to all who need to understand individuals’ rights to independence.” Community CareTable of ContentsIntroduction; History; Direct payments; The lessons of direct payments; Personal budgets; The lessons of personal budgets; Advantages of DP/IB; Possible barriers; Conclusion.
£71.24
Bristol University Press Direct Payments and Personal Budgets
Book SynopsisThis third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new research into the extension and outcomes of personal budgets. It is essential reading for students, practitioners and policy makers in social work and community care services.Trade Review"This book is essential reading for everyone involved in adult social care." British Journal of Social Work"A reminder of the optimistic origins of direct payments and personal budgets and an engaging account for new social workers of how these fit with the profession's origins and skills." Jill Manthorpe, Kings College London“This book is important to all who need to understand individuals’ rights to independence.” Community CareTable of ContentsIntroduction; History; Direct payments; The lessons of direct payments; Personal budgets; The lessons of personal budgets; Advantages of DP/IB; Possible barriers; Conclusion.
£21.84
Bristol University Press Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisBringing together accounts of how intellectual disability was viewed, managed and experienced in countries across the globe, the book examines the origins and nature of contemporary attitudes, policy and practice and sheds light on the challenges of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD).Trade Review“Jan Walmsley and Simon Jarrett have exercised a global reach in collecting diverse perspectives on the ways twelve nations have engaged the challenge of supporting people with intellectual disabilities to take their rightful place as citizens. The result is a gift to scholars and advocates alike.” John O’Brien, The Learning Community for Person Centered PracticesTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett; Paradoxical Lives: Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth Century Australia ~ Lee-Ann Monk; Tracing the Historical and Ideological Roots of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Austria ~ Gertraud Kremsner, Oliver Koenig and Tobias Buchner; Time of Paradoxes: What the Twentieth Century was like for People with Intellectual Disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic ~ Monika Mužáková and Iva Strnadová; Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Ghana ~ Jane Abraham and Auberon Jaleel Odoom; A Greek Neverland: The History of the Leros Asylums' Inmates with Intellectual Disability (1958-95) ~ Danae Karydaki; Intellectual Disability in Hong Kong: Then and Now ~ Phyllis King Shui Wong; People with Intellectual Disabilities in the European Semi-Periphery: The Case of Hungary ~ Ágnes Turnpenny; People with Intellectual Disabilities in Iceland in the Twentieth Century: Sterilization, Social Role Valorization and ‘Normal Life’ ~ Guðrún Stefánsdóttir; Institutionalisation in Twentieth-Century New Zealand ~ Carol Hamilton; ‘My Life in the Institution’ and ‘My Life in the Community’: Policies and Practice in Taiwan ~ Yueh-Ching Chou; Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century United Kingdom ~ Simon Jarrett and Jan Walmsley; From Social Menace to Unfulfilled Promise: The Evolution of Policy and Practice toward People with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States ~ Philip M. Ferguson.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisBringing together accounts of how intellectual disability was viewed, managed and experienced in countries across the globe, the book examines the origins and nature of contemporary attitudes, policy and practice and sheds light on the challenges of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD).Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett; Paradoxical Lives: Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth Century Australia ~ Lee-Ann Monk; Tracing the Historical and Ideological Roots of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Austria ~ Gertraud Kremsner, Oliver Koenig and Tobias Buchner; Time of Paradoxes: What the Twentieth Century was like for People with Intellectual Disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic ~ Monika Mužáková and Iva Strnadová; Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Ghana ~ Jane Abraham and Auberon Jaleel Odoom; A Greek Neverland: The History of the Leros Asylums' Inmates with Intellectual Disability (1958-95) ~ Danae Karydaki; Intellectual Disability in Hong Kong: Then and Now ~ Phyllis King Shui Wong; People with Intellectual Disabilities in the European Semi-Periphery: The Case of Hungary ~ Ágnes Turnpenny; People with Intellectual Disabilities in Iceland in the Twentieth Century: Sterilization, Social Role Valorization and ‘Normal Life’ ~ Guðrún Stefánsdóttir; Institutionalisation in Twentieth-Century New Zealand ~ Carol Hamilton; ‘My Life in the Institution’ and ‘My Life in the Community’: Policies and Practice in Taiwan ~ Yueh-Ching Chou; Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century United Kingdom ~ Simon Jarrett and Jan Walmsley; From Social Menace to Unfulfilled Promise: The Evolution of Policy and Practice toward People with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States ~ Philip M. Ferguson.
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Bristol University Press Disability and Ageing
Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe
£76.00
Bristol University Press Disability and Ageing
Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe
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Bristol University Press Safeguarding Adults Online
Book SynopsisThis volume fills an overlooked gap in adult safeguarding - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive and accessible analysis of best practice in safeguarding vulnerable adults online.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Context of Online Safeguarding 3. Online Participation vs Protection and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 4. The Legacy of Re A and Re B 5. The Safeguarding Dystopia 6. Pro-harm Content Online 7. ‘What Works’ in Safeguarding Adults Online? Understanding the Actors and the Networks 8. Some Conclusions References
£23.74
The University of North Carolina Press SoundBlind
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept of sound-blindness' as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power - stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters.
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Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisDrawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one''s sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
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Duke University Press See It Feelingly
Book Synopsis “We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We are not letting the whale die. We are shaping it, letting it swim through the Web with a new and polished look.”—Tito Mukhopadhyay Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people''s limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and to generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature. In See It Feelingly Ralph James Savarese, an English professor whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to graduate from college, challenges this view. Discussing fictional works over a period of years with readers from across the autism spectrum, Savarese was stunned by the readers'' ability to expand Trade Review"Impassioned and persuasive. . . . A fresh and absorbing examination of autism." * Kirkus Reviews *"This idealistic argument for the social value of literature and for the diversity of autism as a condition is a rewarding endeavor. . . ." * Publishers Weekly *"This is a powerful book — one that really must be experienced. It is a book that unlocks doors to the many rooms of autism and is likely to surprise the thinking of anyone who steps into them. It carries within it the possibilities of new perspectives on literary work, a greater understanding of autistic neurology, and the chance to meet some remarkable individuals. Read it." -- Michael Northen * Wordgathering *"Savarese has produced a masterpiece, simultaneously dense and accessible. His voice moves freely—alternating among lyrical, narrative, and instructive—never losing the flow, never dipping into pedantry, never soaring too far toward the abstract for the reader to follow. Not only is this collection of essays brimming with the most important information and ideas about autism, it is a collaboration of rare beauty." -- Maxfield Sparrow * Thinking Person's Guide to Autism *"Savarese shows that literature—with its imagery, inclusivity, and rich detail—is a natural tent pole for a truly neurodiverse community, one populated by autists and neurotypicals alike. . . . The radical possibility this book ultimately offers is that the gap that has for so long existed between nonverbal autists and neurotypicals can be bridged through literature. Literature is, as Whitman said of himself, large, and contains multitudes." -- Ittai Orr * Synapsis *"Readers will find this book to be a work of art as Ralph Savarese not only exhibits an understanding of the beauty of teaching but also of the language of the autistic mind. Savarese’s literary creation demystifies the limits of the autistic mind by following five autistic adults through their interpretation of and response to classic literature. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above; professionals and general readers." -- D. Pellegrino * Choice *"The sense of critical self-reflection is crucial to this enterprise, and is evident throughout the book. Thankfully, this never veers into self-indulgence; as such, [Savarese's] ethnographic work in this area is an exemplar to all those who study ‘others,’ as outsiders with situated knowledge." -- Alison Wilde * Disability & Society *"To imagine an autistic rhetoric or an autistic literature is to struggle, audaciously, against a legacy of neurotypical people failing to imagine autism as anything other than lack. That struggle is joined . . . by Ralph [James] Savarese, whose See It Feelingly gives us five extraordinary examples of autistic readers’ responses to literature. It’s like Norman Holland’s classic work of reader-response criticism, 5 Readers Reading . . . except with autism." -- Michael Bérubé * Public Books *"Powered by his enthusiasm for connecting with autistics and for representing the fullness of their humanity, See It Feelingly is that rare book in English studies that succeeds as creative nonfiction: a memoir of teaching non-traditional learners that makes a provocative claim for the primacy of the senses in reading literature." -- Dawn Coleman * Leviathan *"Savarese incorporates storytelling, memoir, and poetry into See It Feelingly, which you will read feelingly, from the opening line." -- Deborah Jenson * American Literature *"... See it Feelingly is a wonderful addition to contemporary work being done in critical autism studies and accessible education." -- Jennifer Marchisotto * Disabilities Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword / Stephen Kuusisto xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Prologue: River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies 15 1. From a World as Fluid as the Sea 23 2. The Heavens of the Brain 57 3. Andys and Auties 86 4. Finding Her Feet 122 5. Take for Grandin 155 Epilogue 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 247 Index 261
£27.90
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisJane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
£17.99
Duke University Press Medicine Stories
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.Trade Review"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair." -- Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa * Monthly Review *“Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of Medicine Stories...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... Medicine Stories maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” -- Corinne Lajoie * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *Table of ContentsLibation v The Ground on Which I Stand Ecology Is Everything 3 Bigger Is Better 10 My Feminism 18 Identity and Solidarity 34 The Power of Story 42 The Truths Our Bodies Tell 47 The Historian as Curandera False Memories: Trauma and Liberation 55 The Historian as Curandera 69 Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic 89 What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism 95 Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice 99 The Politics of Childhood 104 Speaking in Tongues On Not Writing English 111 Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish 115 Certified Organic Intellectual 121 Ban Me! 127 Tribes The Tribe of Guarayamín 133 Taíno Citizenship 140 Speaking of Antisemitism 145 BDS and Me 154 Puerto Ricans and Jews 157 Privilege and Loss Class, Privilege, and Loss 175 Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 179 Torturers 192 Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay 197 The Long Haul Building Radical Soil 207 Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion 211 Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 217 A Note From the Author 223 Index 225
£72.25
Duke University Press Hush
Book SynopsisFor almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre''s “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick''s headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood draws evidence from noise-canceling headphones, tinnitus maskers, LPs that play ocean sounds, nature-sound mobile apps, and in-ear smart technologies to argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission, but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These devices, which Hagood calls orphic media, give users the freedom to remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial, gendered, ableist, and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds. In a noisy world of haters, trolls, and information overload, guarded listening can be a necessity for self-care, but Hagood arguTrade Review"Hagood points out that we now often talk about personal freedom in terms of what we don’t have to listen to, and he focusses, in the book, on our efforts to navigate sonic nuisances, and also the paradox of combating sound with more sound, in a world that has become loud enough to damage our health. . . . The stakes of Hush might seem small . . . But, once you begin to think about the relationship between the sound waves that constantly pass through us and the potential loss of self, you become more attuned to all the beckoning noises of modern life." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"Hush is provocative and insightful." -- Stephen Phillips * The Wire *"Hagood leaves us rethinking media theory, sound studies, and the definition of media." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Hush is an important addition to the emerging field of sound studies. . . . Scholars of sound studies, digital media, broadcast media, disability studies, and those interested in the intersection of gender and race with media will find this book insightful." -- Jennifer Hyland Wang * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Hearing What We Want 1 Part I. Suppression 29 1. Tinnitus and Its Aural Remedies 31 Part II. Masking 73 2. Sleep-Mates and Sound Screens: Sound, Speed, and Circulation in Postwar America 75 3. The Ultimate Seashore: Environments and the Nature of Technology 116 4. A Quiet Storm: Orphic Apps and Infocentrism 148 Part III. Cancellation 175 5. Bose QuietComfort and the Mobile Production of Personal Space 177 6. Beats by Dre: Race and the Sonic Interface 198 Conclusion. Wanting What We Hear 220 Notes 235 References 245 Index 261
£98.60
Duke University Press Black Madness Mad Blackness
Book SynopsisIn Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler''s Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson''s Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due''s African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigTrade Review"This book presents a valuable contribution to several disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *"Black Madness :: Mad Blackness is what happens when you get to take the road less traveled with a professional driver or go deep into the weeds with an expert botanist. You may feel out of your depth, but you’re assured by the fact that your traveling companion is extremely knowledgeable. . . . Pickens has called us all outside to play, to think deeply and without eventuality, to consider Blackness and madness – dare I say –irreverently, and we are all the better for it." -- Moya Bailey * Black Perspectives *“Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness invites the reader to think about race and disability in Black American literature.... [It] invite[s] us to enter into what Pickens calls a ‘politics of curiosity,’ one that moves beyond dominant forms of mythmaking or the living nightmares of the carceral state, and to see the constellation of Black life, the impulse to rectify freedom and break the confines of mass incarceration.” -- Edna Bonhomme * Public Books *"A timely reimagination of how we read the intersection of Blackness and disability, opening up further possibilities for anti-ableist and anti-racist futures." -- Rhya Moffitt Brooke * MELUS *Table of ContentsPreface or About Face, Giving Face ix Introduction. What's Good? 1 Conversation 1. Making Black Madness 23 Conversation 2. A Mad Black Thang 50 Conversation 3. Abandoning the Human? 74 Conversation 4. Not Making Meaning, Not Making Since (The End of Time) 95 Notes 115 Bibliography 135 Index 149
£67.15
Duke University Press Black Madness Mad Blackness
Book SynopsisTherí Alyce Pickens examines the speculative and science fiction of Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due to rethink the relationship between race and disability, thereby unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive.Trade Review"This book presents a valuable contribution to several disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *"Black Madness :: Mad Blackness is what happens when you get to take the road less traveled with a professional driver or go deep into the weeds with an expert botanist. You may feel out of your depth, but you’re assured by the fact that your traveling companion is extremely knowledgeable. . . . Pickens has called us all outside to play, to think deeply and without eventuality, to consider Blackness and madness – dare I say –irreverently, and we are all the better for it." -- Moya Bailey * Black Perspectives *“Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness invites the reader to think about race and disability in Black American literature.... [It] invite[s] us to enter into what Pickens calls a ‘politics of curiosity,’ one that moves beyond dominant forms of mythmaking or the living nightmares of the carceral state, and to see the constellation of Black life, the impulse to rectify freedom and break the confines of mass incarceration.” -- Edna Bonhomme * Public Books *"A timely reimagination of how we read the intersection of Blackness and disability, opening up further possibilities for anti-ableist and anti-racist futures." -- Rhya Moffitt Brooke * MELUS *
£17.99
Duke University Press Diminished Faculties
Book SynopsisJonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment, in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself.Trade Review“In this intimate critical phenomenology, Jonathan Sterne shows us that the agential subject of disability studies is interpretive, nonstandard, somewhat unreliable, and nevertheless political. Diminished Faculties is at once an account of the lived experience of impairment and an inventory of what it can engender. Crip humor, technological hacks, imaginary archives, and material metaphors form the myriad registers of Sterne's authorial voice.” -- Aimi Hamraie, author of * Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability *“Offering a compelling account of the phenomenology of impairment, this fascinating, brilliant, and witty book will take disability studies in at least three new directions.” -- Michael Bérubé, author of * The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read *“With its capacious, unpressured mode of being, theorizing, and storytelling, this profound book teaches us how to think and how to be.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *"Diminished Faculties is a lyric, genre-bending book, that is forcefully argued, rendered beautifully, and will open the path for further research. It is deeply generous both to reader and future scholar, as Sterne’s work always is. But additionally, this is a book that so many have needed, and need now, a way of situating the present emergency in a much longer, political history." -- Hannah Zeavin * boundary 2 *"A new book by Sterne is a seismic event, an idea drop so heavy that it takes time to fully process. Sterne is preternaturally skilled at taking apart prosaic, everyday objects . . . connecting them to history and culture and formulating elegant arguments that make you see and hear the world in new ways. His scholarship is rigorous, but he also maintains a fluid, approachable style that isn’t dry, as much academic prose tends to be. . . . His wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary outlook is not only instructive, but also empowering and inspiring." -- Geeta Dayal * 4Columns *"An intimate and rigorous journey, indispensable for anybody who wants to engage with the issue of disability in media and reflect on its importance for organisations, accessibility and inclusion." -- Domenico Napolitano * punt0org *"So often disabled people are expected to clarify to others what is wrong with them, a pedagogical task that more sophisticated critical explorations of disability can’t quite accomplish. But through his multi-genre approach, Sterne is able to assert and justify his existence while studying the cultural and technological forces that shape it. This is why it’s gratifying to read disability scholarship written by disabled scholars." -- Sophia Stewart * The Baffler *"A triumph from beginning to end. . . . The use of humility and humor, specifically sourced from the collective and individual lived experiences of disabled people (i.e. crip humor), is a major strength of the manuscript. Sterne is also skillful at bringing disability scholars into conversation with one another and engaging readers interactively as interlocutors." -- Meryl Alper * New Media & Society *"A thoughtful analysis of originality and imagination in the midst of so-called diminished faculties. . . . Sterne’s exploration of what constitutes valued labor within the academy is particularly illuminating. Sterne also provides useful resources on impairment theory and extensive notes and references providing an excellent foundation for future research in the subject area." -- Nancy Hansen * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"Diminished Faculties offers a new theoretically and methodologically accessible impairment theory as a political phenomenology of bodies and technologies. The book provides a rigorous study of technology, hearing, and voice with respect to impairment. In addition, Sterne engages with his own lived experiences of diminished faculties in speech, voice, hearing, and the feeling of wellness. . . . The book is not only insightful, but also funny and quite quirky." -- Slava Greenberg * Film Quarterly *"Sterne’s exploration of experiences of speech and hearing across theory, autoethnography, art practice, and activism makes Diminished Faculties a rigorous yet personal account of impairment as an inherent part of human embodiment." -- Dorothy R. Santos * Public *Table of Contents1. Degrees of Muteness 1 2. Meet the Dork-o-Phone 41 3. In Search of New Vocalities: An Imaginary Exhibition 69 4. Audile Scarification: On Normal Impairments 117 5. There Are Never Enough Spoons 157 Impairment Theory: A User's Guide 193 Credits 209 Notes 217 Bibliography 249 Index 281
£76.50
Duke University Press The Terrible We
Book SynopsisIn The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development.Table of ContentsPreface/Acknowledgments vii Introduction: On Staying with the Terrible We 1 1. Disabled Histories of Trans 31 Holding Space 61 2. Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual 67 3. Some Dissociative Trans Masc Poetics 89 4. We's Company 117 Afterword/Elegy 143 Notes 151 Bibliography 171 Index 187
£67.15
Duke University Press Activist Affordances
Book SynopsisFor people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumaci draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks. Dokumaci shows how they use improvisation to imagine and bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls “activist affordances.” Even as an environment shrinks to a set of constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same environment otherwise. Dokumaci shows how disabled people’s activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and accessible world for all of us.Trade Review“In this exciting work Arseli Dokumacı offers compelling ethnographic interviews, journal entries, and her own experiences of difficulties with rheumatoid arthritis. Her accounts of the lives of her interlocutors are rich and evocative and form the basis for her idea of activist affordances: the everyday hacks that allow disabled people to manage the simplest of daily activities as they face a diminishing world of possible action and imaginaries. Addressing what it means to live with bodily challenges, Activist Affordances is critical disability studies at its intersectional best.” -- Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, New York University“Arseli Dokumacı reveals how people living with illnesses and disabilities navigate an inaccessible and ableist world by identifying the creativity, innovation, and resilience that goes into such navigation. Refusing the still-too-common notion that knowledge about disability is the province of medical experts rather than disabled people themselves, she brilliantly theorizes the accumulation of skills, negotiations, and hacks that disabled people discover to make their way in this world. And in this way, Dokumacı persuasively argues, they help concretize more accessible and just worlds.” -- Alison Kafer, author of * Feminist, Queer, Crip *"This book strikes a balance between academic rigor (i.e., theory) and practical relevance (i.e., practice). Readers will appreciate that many of the hacks discussed also come with pictures to help readers visualize the affordances. The book draws on a range of disciplines, including disability studies, anthropology, and design, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of disability activism. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- G. Colosi * Choice *"Activist Affordances attunes readers to individual, everyday acts that could teach us how to create more habitable futures. Such a perspective opens new spaces for scholarly and political debates on activism, disability, and the preservation of the planet." -- Kostadin Karavasilev * LSE Review of Books *“[A] generative, thought provoking text … it will be exciting to follow how readers ‘make up, make real, and make do with’ this book’s innovative contributions.” -- Christine Sargent * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Shrinkage 1. Affordance Encounters Disability 31 2. Chronic Pain, Chronic Disease 55 3. The Habitus of Ableism 71 4. Planetary Shrinkage 87 Part II. Performance 5. A Theory of Activist Affordances 99 6. An Archive of Activist Affordances 119 7. Always in-the-Making 191 8. People as Affordances 205 9. Disability Repertoires 227 10. Speculations for a Shrinking Planet 237 Notes 253 Bibliography 293 Index 311
£73.95
Duke University Press Intoxicated
Book SynopsisIn Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through toxicity. Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland’s racialization and targeting of Aboriginal peoples through its ostensible concern with black opium, Chen explores how the colonial administration of race and disability gives rise to “intoxicated” subjects often shadowed by slowness. Chen charts the ongoing reverberations of these chemical entanglements in art and contemporary moments of political and economic conflict or agitation. Although intoxicated subjects may be affected by ongoing pollution or discredited as agents of failure, Chen affirmatively identifies queer/crip forms of unlearning and worlTrade Review“Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. ‘Take my hand,’ Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, ‘and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.’ These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond.” -- Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University“In the interlaced archives of toxicity, disability, and race, Mel Y. Chen brilliantly agitates the past and helps us unlearn and redistribute these key terms. The book gifts us with profoundly reorienting paths that undo, rather than reify, toxicity, pointing readers toward an alterwise of vibrating noninnocent transecologies of intoxicated intimacy.” -- M. Murphy, author of * The Economization of Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations 1 1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development 18 2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being 62 3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method 100 Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait 142 Notes 165 Bibliography 177 Index
£74.70
Duke University Press Crip Spacetime
Book SynopsisMargaret Price examines the experiences of disabled academics to show how attempts at providing individual accommodations actually impede rather than enhancing access.
£72.25
Duke University Press Disability Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of “special education,” and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors’ anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference. Ginsburg and Rap
£73.95
New York University Press Literary Bioethics
Book SynopsisUses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumansLiterary Bioethics argues for literature as an untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics. Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, considers the valuation of disabled lives in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, and questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. By analyzing novels puTrade ReviewLinett’s articulation of literature as a site of bioethical exploration offers new and essential inroads for conversations on disability. Moving past the ‘thought experiment,’ Linett positions literature as an alternative kind of thought laboratory, one far more interested in whose lives are valued when we think bioethically -- Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, CripThe book's writing is lucid, the structure is well organized, the research is meticulously conducted, and the main claims are masterfully argued. Literary Bioethics will be useful for those working in the fields of disability studies, literary studies, sociology, animal studies, age studies, and bioethics. It will be especially helpful for those trying to think through thorny questions having to do with justice for both disabled people and animals. * Disability Studies Quarterly *Ranging widely across the long twentieth century and skillfully weaving together disparate (and sometimes adversarial) disciplinary and critical perspectives, Literary Bioethics promises to persuade a broad array of readers of the distinctive value of literary ways of knowing as we strive toward justice for sentient lives. * Journal of Modern Literature *
£66.60
New York University Press Accessible America
Book SynopsisA history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible designdesign for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they Trade ReviewAccessible America offers an important history of how and why design for disability has evolved and needs to evolve. * Curbed.com *This illuminating and thoughtful overview of the evolution of accessible design in the U.S. between the end of WWII and the late 1990s is a strong introduction to the topic...Williamson skillfully connects design concepts to changing social narratives; this work should reward readers interested in either topic. * Publishers Weekly *Williamson keenly emphasizes that the United States has led the world globally toward physical access and accessibility as acceptable and admirable natural and civil rights rather than annoying physical encumbrances that stand in the way...reading [this]can change lives. * Library Journal *Accessible America is handsomely produced and will appeal to readers interested in design, disability studies, and social history. -- CHOICEAmerica was once even less accessible than it is now, as historicized by Bess Williamson in her book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. Williamson uses her background in art and design to critique the ways that nationalism and idealism have driven material environments to reflect societal norms in the United States post World War II. She integrates analysis with historical images that exhibit how truly inaccessible this country has been throughout history, which she artfully points out as being in "response to a lack" for much of modern history. * Disability Studies Quarterly *Beautifully and engagingly written, Williamson's approach to the history of accessibility as a history of design is brilliant. Accessible America shows how disability advocates harnessed technological design in their quest for access and equality, paying particular attention to the connection between prosthetic devices and the 'universal' design that followed, illuminating both histories. Highly recommended. -- Douglas C. Baynton,author of Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of EugenicsBess Williamson's engaging history of accessible design points the way to design as a tool for empowerment, critique, and self-expression that celebrates the diversity of human bodies. Disability is a culture, not a lack. -- Ellen Lupton,Curator of Contemporary Design at The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumBy unearthing, situating, and interpreting artifacts of accessible designfrom World War II to the rise of the Independent Living Movement to the post-ADA eraWilliamson's book offers a much-needed contribution to disability history as we know it while also reshaping it for the next generation of disability historians, designers, and activists. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar AmericaWilliamson reveals the hidden history of how the Disability Rights Movement's struggle for inclusion rebuilt the world. Reaching back to activist veterans returning from World War II, through the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, to ergonomics, universal design, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Williamson shows us the transformed America that gives us the tools and pathways we all use every day to make our lives work better, and that the emergence of inclusive design and the world it makes is a tool for justice. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,author of Extraordinary BodiesThe contents of this book are a win for historians of disability as well as for historians of technology, architecture, and design. * H-Net Reviews *Accessible America is a must-read for scholars of disability history and material culture ... Williamson’s design-centered approach charts an effective and compelling road map for future disability studies projects, and she suggests interesting possibilities for further research on the built environment and US disability history. * Winterthur Portfolio *A special strength of Williamson’s work is the emphasis on the role of people with disabilities as active agents of change in design [...] Accessible America manages to include the hidden stories of the history of disability-related design and places them in a wider context of technological, political, and social change, including the growing impact of the disability movement. * Technology and Culture *
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