Disability: social aspects Books
Chapman and Hall Seclusion and Mental Health A Break With The Past
Book SynopsisSeclusion as a concept is poorly understood and this is reflected in the literature on the topic, particularly from nursing authors. We would point out to those sceptical about the value of this book that seclusion is not only of interest as an intervention per se, but is valuable in reflecting a shifting ethos within care.Table of Contents1 Introducing seclusion.- 2 History of the use of seclusion.- 3 Literature review.- 4 Seclusion as therapy, containment or punishment.- 5 Legal aspects and policy issues.- 6 Decision-making process in seclusion practice.- 7 Non-seclusion policies.- 8 Seclusion and nurse education.- 9 Seclusion abuse.- 10 Ethical issues.- 11 Patients’ views about seclusion.- 12 Conclusions.- References.
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Taylor & Francis Disability in Medieval Europe
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The University of Michigan Press Diaphanous Bodies
Book SynopsisThrough the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen, Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Tempestuously Able Bodied Clear Indistinct Ideas: Narrative, Sensation, and the Diaphanous Body in Joyce's Ulysses Indolesco Ergo Sum: Language, Compulsion, and Beckett's Existential Pains Abling Self and Other: Self-Sufficiency and Gender in George Egerton Unhoused Capacities: Elizabeth Bowen's Colonial Agency Conclusion: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Absence Bibliography
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Psychiatric Patient Violence
Book SynopsisGeorgina Robinson was a mental health worker murdered by a patient. This work comes from the public enquiry investigating her death. Academics and practitioners, from a wide range of disciplines, contribute their views about psychiatric patient violence and its management.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Difference and Identity A Special Issue of
Book SynopsisThe journal showcases the creative and critical work of renowned physician-writers, leading literary scholars, and medical humanists.Trade ReviewAn eclectic collection that informs, raises issues and creates discussion in the medical humanities and across a range of sub-disciplines. -- Julie Anderson Medical History 2006Table of ContentsPreface: Difference and Identity in MedicinePart I: Dis-AbilityChapter 1. Disability as MasqueradeChapter 2. Meditation, Disability, and IdentityChapter 3. Fat as Disability: The Case of the JewsChapter 4. Response to Section I: Dis-abilityPart II: Dis-SexualityChapter 5. Where the Girls Are: The Management of Venereal Disease by United States Military Forces in VietnamChapter 6. Bug Chasing, Barebacking, and the Risks of CareChapter 7. "Without us all told": Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the AIDS CrisisChapter 8. Response to Section II: Dis-sexuality: Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human RightsPart III: Dis-EmbodimentChapter 9. Memento Morbi: Lam Qua's Paintings, Peter Parker's PatientsChapter 10. Loss and the Persistence of Memory: "The Case of George Dedlow" and Disabled Civil War VeteransChapter 11. Extrapolating Race in GATTACA: Genetic Passing, Identity, and the Science of RaceChapter 12. Response to Section III: Dis-embodimentContributors
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Teachers' College Press Sustaining Disabled Youth Centering Disability
Book SynopsisBrings together a collection of work that situates disability as a key aspect of children and youth’s cultural identity construction. The book explores how disability intersects with other markers of difference to create unique cultural repertoires to be valued, sustained, and utilized for learning.Table of Contents ContentsSeries Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Disability and Asset Pedagogies: An Introduction to the Book xv Kathleen A. King Thorius and Federico R. WaitollerPart I: CENTERING DISABILITY CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY 1. Disabled Lives: Worthiness and Identity in an Ableist Society 3 Anjali J. Forber-Pratt and Bradley J. Minotti2. Cultivating Positive Racial-Ethnic-Disability Identity: Opportunities in Education for Culturally Sustaining Practices at the Intersection of Race and Disability 17 Seena M. Skelton3. Smooth and Striated Spaces: Autistic (Ill)legibility as a Deterritorializing Force 31 Sara M. Acevedo and Robin Rosigno4. Luring the Vygotskyan Imagination: Notes for a New Bridge Between Disability Studies in Education and Asset Pedagogies 46 Federico R. WaitollerPart II: SUSTAINING DISABILITY IDENTITIES WITHIN PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES 5. Black Deaf Gain: A Guide to Revisioning K–12 Deaf Education 59 Onudeah D. Nicolarakis, Akilah English, and Gloshanda Lawyer6. Disability Critical Race Theory as Asset Pedagogy 74 Subini Annamma, David Connor, and Beth Ferri7. Krip-Hop Nation Puts Back the Fourth Element of Hip-Hop: Knowledge with a Political Limp 86 Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Keith Jones8. Breaking Down Barriers: Hearing from Children to Learn to Teach Inclusively in Bilingual Education 95 Patricia Martínez-Álvarez and Minhye SonPart III: ON NURTURING TEACHERS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS 9. Of the Insubstantiality of "Special" Worlds: Curricular Cripistemological Practices as Asset Pedagogy in Teacher Education 111 Linda Ware, David Mitchell, and Sharon Snyder10 . Mothers of Color of Children with Dis/abilities: Centering Their Children's Assets in Family as Faculty Projects 126 Cristina Santamaría Graff11. Practicing for Complex Times: The Future of Disability Studies and Teacher Education 144 Srikala Naraian12. Curriculum Theorizing, Intersectional Consciousness, and Teacher Education for Disability-Inclusive Practices 156 Mildred Boveda and Brittany Aronson13. Leveraging Asset Pedagogies at Race/Disability Intersections in Equity-Expansive Technical Assistance 169 Kathleen A. King ThoriusNotes 183 References 185 About the Editors and the Contributors 222 Index 228
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Wayne State University Press On the Margins of a Minority Leprosy Madness and
Book SynopsisIn medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalised within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal and external sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these “others”.
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Duke University Press The Minor Gesture
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor gesture''s power to fashion relations, its capacity to open new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world—in particular what Manning terms 'autistic perception.' Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari''s schizoanalysis and Whitehead''s speculative pragmatism, Manning''s far-reaching analyses range from fashion to depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it gestuTrade Review"Manning emphasizes a kind of affect that brings to the fore a feeling of being a part of a larger environment, something relational, something that helps people to see themselves as part of something bigger." -- Karen Simecek * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"The Minor Gesture is a fascinating and intellectually challenging book that successfully problematises common-sense (neurotypical) understandings of perception, action and embodiment. In doing so it politicises mundane everyday experience and calls for sustained critique of normatively framed lifeworlds." -- Ben Simmons * Disability & Society *"A wide-ranging and carefully argued book. . . . Now that we know just how much mental activity escapes our conscious awareness and defies standard and dialectical accounts of knowledge, reason, and agency, efforts like Manning’s to better understand neurodiversity and to mobilize that understanding for research-creation and political activism alike are invaluable." -- Eugene W. Holland * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: In a Minor Key 1 1. Against Method 26 2. Artfulness: Emergent Collectives and Processes of Individuation 46 3. Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment 64 4. Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of Form 86 5. Choreographing the Political 111 6. Carrying the Feeling 131 7. In the Act: The Shape of Precarity 165 8. What a Body Can Do: A Conversation with Arno Boehler 189 Postscript: Affirmation without Credit 201 Notes 233 References 261 Index 269
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Cambridge University Press Stratification Economics and Disability Justice
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge International Handbook of Mad
Book SynopsisBy drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what it can offer. It presents examples of mad studies in action, covering initiatives that have been taken, their achievements and what can be learned from them. In addition to sharing research findings and evidence, the book offers examples and insights for advancing understandings of experiences of madness and distress from the perspectives of those who have (had) those experiences, and also explores ways of supporting people oppressed by conventional understandings and systems.This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of Mad Studies, disability studies, sociologTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Mad Studies and political organising of people with psychiatric experience1. The international foundations of Mad Studies: Knowledge generated in collective action2. Reflections on power, knowledge and change3. Shifting identities as reflective personal responses to political changes4. A crazy, warrior and "respondona" Peruvian: All personal transformation is social and political5. Reflections on survivor knowledge and Mad Studies6. Speaking for ourselves: An early UK survivor activist’s account7. Fostering community responsibility: Perspectives from the Pan African Network of people with psychosocial disabilities8. Using survivor knowledge to influence public policy in the United States9. The social movement of people with psychosocial disabilities in Japan: Strategies for taking the struggle to academia10. Re-writing the master narrative: A prerequisite for mad liberationPart 2: Situating Mad Studies11. A genealogy of the concept of "Mad Studies"12. How is Mad Studies different from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry? 13. Mad Studies and disability studies14. Weaponizing absent knowledges: Countering the violence of mental health lawPart 3: Mad Studies and knowledge equality15. The subjects of oblivion: Subalterity, sanism, and racial erasure16. Institutional ceremonies? The (im)possibilities of transformative co-production in mental health17. "Are you experienced?" The use of experiential knowledge in mental health and its contribution to Mad Studies18. De-pathologising motherhood19. The professional regulation of madness in nursing and social work20. The (global) rise of anti-stigma campaignsPart 4: Doing Mad Studies21. Why we must talk about de-medicalization22. Imagining non-carceral futures with(in) Mad Studies23. Madness in the time of war: Post-war reflections on practice and research beyond the borders of psychiatry and development24. The architecture of my madness25. Re-conceptualising suicidality: Towards collective intersubjective responses26. De-coupling and re-coupling violence and madness27. Upcycling recovery: Potential alliances of recovery, inequality and Mad Studies28. Bodies, boundaries, b/orders: A recent critical history of differentialism and structural adjustment29. Spirituality, psychiatry, and Mad Studies. Part 5: Inquiring into the future for Mad Studies30. Taking Mad Studies back out into the community31. Interrogating Mad Studies in the academy: Bridging the community/academy divide32. Madness, decolonisation and mental health activism in Africa33. Navigating voices, politics, positions amidst peers: Resonances and dissonances in India34. ‘Madness’ as a term of division, or rejection35. Afterword: The ethics of making knowledge together36. Postscript: Mad Studies in a maddening world
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Dementia Studies
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Taylor & Francis The Future of Mental Health Disability and
Book SynopsisThis book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers.The book is divided into four substantive sections: reforming mental health and disability law; regulating coercion and restrictive practices; improving access to justice and the criminal law; and transforming mental health law. It also includes an introduction from the editors and an afterword from Emeritus Professor McSherry.The book is aimed at regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics who are interested in the urgent and contentious issues surrounding the reform and development of mental health, disability and criminal law. It will help them understand the key issues and problems and presents suggestions for reform. The book is interdisciplinary and international in its focus.Chapters 9 and 13 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis Enacting Disability Critical Race Theory
Book SynopsisThis edited volume foregrounds Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as an intersectional framework that has informed scholarly analyses of racism and ableism from the personal to the global - offering important interventions into theory, practice, policy, and research. The authors offer deep personal explorations, innovative interventions aimed at transforming schools, communities, and research practices, and expansive engagements and global conversations around what it means for theory to travel beyond its original borders or concerns. The chapters in this book use DisCrit as a springboard for further thinking, illustrating its role in fostering transgressive, equity-based, and action-oriented scholarship. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Race Ethnicity and Education.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Long Lives Are for the Rich
Book SynopsisLong Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequalities including those between healthy and unhealthy life styles are mainly caused by social inequalities that are reproduced over the life course. This crucial function of the life course has become painfully visible during its neoliberal reorganization since the early 1980s. Studies about aging over the life course, from birth to death, show the inhumane consequences as people get older. In spite of the enormous wealth that has been piled up in the US for a dwindling percentage of the population, there has been growing public indifference about the needs of those in jobs with low pay and high streTrade Review"With a compelling and rigorous critical lens, Jan Baars uncovers the humanly destructive effects of neoliberalism and its 'humanist' intellectual apologists. He demonstrates clearly how popular narratives of social science, philosophy and popular culture are logically and empirically flawed, and how they have served to legitimate neoliberalism’s rise and its continued expansion while naturalizing or otherwise ignoring and obscuring the harmful impact its policies have on individual life chances and aspirations."Dale Dannefer, Case Western University, author of Age and the Reach of the Sociological Imagination"This superb book illuminates, more clearly than any other, the profound relationships among capitalism, neoliberalism, poverty, inequality, and aging. Baars cuts through the misconceptions about healthy aging by showing how the very rich have exploited old people in the quest to accumulate capital. Through a wide range of data and other startling information, the book documents the ways that neoliberal policies prop up global capitalism but deeply hurt people as they age. As a sociologist and medical practitioner trying to care for old people, I often have faced the disastrous conditions that this book describes. But until reading the book, I never fully understood the political- economic sources of patients’ suffering. The book’s revelations point to a need for fundamental social transformation if we are serious about improving health and quality of life for people as they age."Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Health Sciences, University of New Mexico"A bold and original critique of the impact of neo-liberal policies in widening inequalities and undermining social rights. Drawing on his commitment to critical scholarship and a passion for social justice, Jan Baars provides a comprehensive account of the way in which neo-liberal policies have drastically reduced security for the middle and working class in the US, and for disadvantaged older people in particular. He demonstrates how the experiences of older citizens provide a powerful illustration of the operation of social inequalities – and the way these shape health inequalities – over the life course. Jan Baars concludes his book by arguing for a new moral vision of the life course, one guided by considerations of social justice, equity, and mutual respect between citizens."Chris Phillipson, Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction. The neo-liberal turn against a supportive life course and the US as its tragic championChapter 1. From a supportive to an entrepreneurial organization of the life course Chapter 2. Long lives are for the Rich…until this backfires Chapter 3. Main forms and temporal dynamics of social inequalityChapter 4. Ageism as a form of social InequalityChapter 5. Social inequality: from central concern to its marginalization Chapter 6. Theories about Social Justice and Equality over the Life Course: Looking away from Social InequalityChapter 7. Social (In)equality over the Life Course: Pitfalls and Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisDisability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.With the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates want rather than what those on the ground need most.This volume was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights violTable of Contents0.Introduction. Part One - Who counts as disabled? 1.Knowing about Human Rights Situation of Burn Survivors Women of Bangladesh. 2.Creating a STORM: Working together to fight stigma and stand up for the rights of people with learning disabilities. 3.Rethinking the capacities of disabled children from the perspective of new materialism. 4.A Journey to Realize Autistic’s Right. 5."To tremble, else break": Dismanlting Normative Hierarchies of Chronic Lyme. 6.The Balancing Act: Disability at the intersection of minority ethnicity. 7.Mental health service users claiming their right to self-advocacy: The journey of "Autoekprosopsi". 8.Developing cultural capacity with people who have profound intellectual disabilities. 9.Fighting for the rights of the non-speaking: Typing words to be heard. Part Two - Political, social, and cultural context. 10.Exploring the now and the prospects of the Disability rights movement in Latin America. 11.On the margins while in the midst of conflict – Adults with intellectual disabilities in Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina. 12.Personal assistance services in Poland during the period of higher education: Paving the way for independent living. 13.Theories of social dominance in group-based hierarchies: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) project in Uruguay. 14.Intellectual Disability and Sexuality in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities. 15.On the Hierarchy of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Higher Education: Capturing the fulfilment of the right to accessibility in Indonesia. 16.Violence against women and girls with disabilities in residential institutions in Serbia. 17.Disability and Displacement: Disability Hierarchy Among Refugees and Other Displaced People. 18.Hierarchy, education and persons with disabilities in Anglophone Caribbean. Part Three - Which rights on top, whose rights on bottom? 19.Hierarchies of impairment and digital disability rights. 20.Communication rights moderated through hierarchies of disability and childhood. 21.Including the voices of persons with intellectual disabilities in academia: Participatory research, education and development in the academic world. 22.Exploring intersectional and ethical feminist perspectives as a possible framework for understanding violence against women with disabilities in Africa with specific reference to forced sterilisation. 23.Inclusive Education through a Neoliberal lens: The hierarchal differences between rural and urban China. Part Four - Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement. 24.Excluded from disability rights debate: the missed voices of people with speech impairments. 25.Hierarchies of Leadership Within Disability Justice Movements: The Voices of individuals with intellectual disabilities are often left unheard. 26.Zhenshchiny. Invalidnost’. Feminizm/Women. Disability . Feminism: Claiming Ourselves Against Ableism. 27.Two sides of the same coin: Domination of the views of the educated in organisations of the blind in Ghana. 28.Between the Disability Movement and the Feminist Movement - Intersectional Mobilizations of Women with Disabilities in Haiti. Part Five - Representations of Disability. 29.Reflections of Misperceptions. 30.Pirate Island. 31.Disability or Vulnerability: How Courts Distinguish between Physical and Psychosocial Disabilities in an Employment Context. 32.Rooted in Rights – "Women with Disabilities in India and Kenya". 33.Conversation Across Continents on Hierarchies, Human Security and Covid-19. 34.An Invitation to Contemplate: Dialogues about disability hierarchies between South Africa and Scotland. 35.Countering Disability Hierarchy with Cross Disability Solidarity. 36.Intersecting identities.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beginning with Disability
Book SynopsisWhile there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplinesincluding education, sociology, communications, psychology, social sciences, and humanitiesfeatures accessible, readable, and relatively short chapters that do not require specialized knowledge.Lennard Davis, along with a team of consulting editors, has compiled a number of blogs, vlogs, and other videos to make the materials more relatable and vivid to students. Subject to Debate boxes spotlight short pro and con pieces on controversial subjects that can be debated in class or act as prompts for assignments.Trade ReviewBeginning with Disability: A Primer brings together a collection of renowned and emergent scholars to offer an exciting and accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. An excellent resource for those new to this field.Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, University of SheffieldDavis has deftly curated an indispensable introduction to the field of disability studies. With its accessible and engaging prose, Beginning with Disability: A Primer is the disability studies 101 text that will be required reading for every introductory course in the field.Beth A. Ferri, Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies, Syracuse UniversityBeginning with Disability gathers established and emerging disability studies scholars and disability activists to reflect on what it means to center disability in analyses of history, culture, politics, and lived experience. The result is a powerfully diverse array of methods, archives and voices, and a series of thought-provoking questions that will be an asset to college instructors and students of disability studies at all levels.Julie Passanante Elman, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Missouri and author of Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation Beginning with Disability is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of disability studies. For students new to the field, it offers a clear and accessible introduction to the major interventions and ongoing debates in the field; for more seasoned scholars, it compiles classic texts in one location for convenient reference.Julie Avril Minich, Assistant Professor of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at AustinWith zest, Beginning with Disability shows us the social relations that make disability a complex set of meanings, experiences, and ways of knowing that should no longer be taken-for-granted. The various works collected here together with the compelling use of examples from popular culture promise to makes this Primer a great one—enabling us to encounter the significance of the mystery that disability is all around us, but as Davis says, "it's often hiding in plain sight."Tanya Titchkosky, Professor of Disability Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and Author of Disability, Self and Society, Reading and Writing Disability Differently, and The Question of Access: Disability, Space, MeaningTable of ContentsPART 1: DEFINING DISABILITY1. Davis, Lennard. Introduction.2. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Becoming Disabled3. Linton, Simi. Reassigning Meaning.4. Dolmage, Jay. Disability Rhetoric.5. Omansky, Beth and Karen Rosenblum. A Comparison of Disability With Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Statuses.6. Silberman, Steve. Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains.PART 2: DEAFNESS AND DEAF CULTURE7. Padden, Carol A. Talking Culture: Deaf People of Disability Studies.8. Leahy, Morgan. Stop Sharing Those Feel-Good Cochlear Implant Videos.9. Groce, Nora. "Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language"PART 3: THE HISTORY OF DISABILITY10. Burch, Susan and Kim Nielsen. Disability History.11. Baynton, Douglas. Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882–1924.12. Carey, Allison C. On the Margins of Citizenship. Disability Activism and the Intellectually Disabled.PART 4: DISABILITY, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE13. Erevelles, Nirmala. Disability and Race.14. Schalk, Sami. Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification With/In Disability Studies.15. Ralph, Laurence. What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago.16. David M. Perry and Laqrence Carter-Long. Misunderstanding Disability Leads to Police Violence.17. Metzl, Jonathon. Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping the Mentally Ill.PART 5: EXPERIENCING DISABILITY18. Miserandino, Christine. The Spoon Theory.19. Peace, Bill. Ableism and a Watershed Experience.20. Sacks, Mike. O.C.D. in N.Y.C.21. Hedrick, Michael. Living with Schizophrenia: The Importance of Routine.22. Michalko, Rod. The Two-in-One.PART 6: DISABILITY AND CULTURE23. Rosenberg, Alyssa. If Hollywood's So Creative, Why Can't It Tell New Stories About People With Disabilities?24. Abramovich, Seth. Little People, Big Woes in Hollywood: Low Pay, Degrading Jobs, and a Tragic Death.25. Kornhaber, Spencer and Lauryn S. Mayer. The Ethics of Hodor: Disability in Game of Thrones.26. Anand, Shilpaa. From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally.27. Luft, Alexander. The New Kid in Primetime: What Speechless Has to Say.28. Bolt, David. An Advertising Aesthetic: Real Beauty and Visual Impairment.29. Moosa, Tauriq. Your Body Isn’t Your World: The Heroes of the Mad Max Video Game and Disability.30. Gibbons, Sarah. Auti(sim) and Representation: Autis(i)m, Disability Simulation Games, and Neurodiversity.31. Kuusisto, Steve. Why I’m a Crippled Poet.PART 7: THE DISABILITY YET TO COME32. Ware, Linda. Disability Studies in K-12 Education.33. Biklen, Douglas and Jamie Burke. Presuming Competence.34. Girma, Haben. Disability and Innovation.35. Barker, Nicole C.S. "What Will You Gain When You Lose?" Deafness, Disability Gain, Creativity, and Human Difference.36. Capuzzi Simon, Cecilia. Disability Studies: A New Normal.PART 8: SUBJECT TO DEBATE37. Disability and Sexual ObjectificationA. Bartlett, Jennifer. Longing for the Male Gaze.B. Crippledscholar.com. Disabled Women and Sexual Objectification (or the Lack Thereof).38. Sexual Surrogacy.Unlockingwords.wordpress.com. Disability and Paying for Sex39. Prenatal Testing and Abortion.A. Whattoexpect.com. The Benefits of Prenatal Testing.B. Tennant, Michael. "U.K. Lawmaker: End Abortion Discrimination Against the Disabled.40. Assisted SuicideA. Golden, Marilyn. The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws.B. Zakaria, Rafia. Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal.41. Cochlear Implants.A. Owens, Brian. Infants May Benefit from Advanced Cochlear Implants.B. Ringo, Allegra. Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to be "Fixed".42. Nondisabled Actors in Disabled Roles.A. Ryan, Frances. We Wouldn’t Accept Actors Blacking Up, So Why Applaud "Cripping Up"?B. Seymour, Tony. Able-Bodied Actors in Disabled Roles: Modern-day "Blacking Up" ... Or Is It?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Village Idiot
Book SynopsisIf I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.Welcome to the village of Syresham; it''s not quite the Cotswolds. Townies have decided they want a lie-in, so they''re building a new high-speed railway. Issue is, it''s going right through Barbara Honeybone''s house, and she ''ent having none of it. Barbara''s grandson Peter works for the townies and it''s his job to convince the village that having a two-tonne bullet hurtling through their cabbage patches will actually be for the best. Then there''s Harry, Barbara''s younger grandson, he ''ent that bothered about trains, he''s only got eyes for Debbie Mahoney. But the only thing Barbara hates more than townies is the Mahoneys.Originally commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse, Village Idiot by Samson Hawkins is an audacious comedy, where family feuds kick off around a country fair that all you townies are invited to.This edition wa
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making Computers Accessible
Book SynopsisBridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected.Trade ReviewShe creatively and thoughtfully brings together three growing areas of historical scholarship: disability rights, technical developments in computing, and users of personal computers. Choice By underlining, once more, how we can come to know the truth about certain claims through empirical and historical inquiries, Petrick's book represents a significant advance in answering questions related to human-machine interaction. MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Disability Rights and Technology before the Personal Computer2. Early Personal Computer Accessibility, 1980–19873. Corporate Philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance4. The Growth of Disability Rights and Accessible Computer Technologies5. Accessibility and Software Applications in the 1990sConclusionNotesA Note on Theory, Method, and SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sudden Hearing Loss
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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
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Autism
Book SynopsisResearch suggests that about 1% of the world''s population is on the autism spectrum. Discover the answers to common questions about living with neurodiversity.Part of the Q&A Health Guides series, this book offers a broad introduction to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The book's 47 questions cover what ASD is and its common characteristics, the biological and environmental factors that may lead to ASD, how autism is diagnosed and managed, and how those living with ASD can reach their full potential. Autism: Your Questions Answered addresses these and other topics in a way that both celebrates neurodiversity and acknowledges the many challenges that those with ASD face.Augmenting the main text, a collection of 5 case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The common misconceptions section at the beginning of the volume dispels 5 long-standing and harmful myths about ASD, directing readers to
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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 Care Technologies for Ageing Societies
Book SynopsisExploring the role of technology in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, this book compares the ways in which technology is being implemented in different national contexts to contribute effectively to the sustainability of care systems.Table of Contents1. Care Technologies for Ageing Societies: Setting the Scene - Kate Hamblin and Matthew Lariviere 2. Technology and Adult Social Care in England - James Wright and Kate Hamblin 3. Technology to Support Ageing in Place in Australia - Meryl Lovarini, Kate O’Loughlin and Lindy Clemson 4. The Role of Assistive Technologies in Homecare Delivery in Germany: Between Vision and Reality - Andreas Hoff and Bill Pottharst 5. Technology and Care in Canada - Arlene Astell and Janet Fast 6. Designing a Future in Longevity Societies: Integrating Long-Term Care and Technology-Based Services in Japan - Tomoko Wakui 7. Care Technologies for Ageing Societies: Key Lessons - Matthew Lariviere and Kate Hamblin
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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 *
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New York University Press Signs of Disability
Book SynopsisHow can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped deaf person in area road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms dis-attention.To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomenaincluding disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research iTrade ReviewThis engaging, accessible book builds on Stephanie Kerschbaum’s already-award- winning scholarship on difference and discourse, constructing new research methods and approaches, but also building community on these pages. Signs of Disability offers an incredibly generative vocabulary for understanding the ways that disability matters: how we mark and signal it, how we ignore and hide it, how we powerfully inhabit and embody it through stories. Signs of Disability is a transformative book. * Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo *A lovely, powerful read, Signs of Disability makes consequential, engaging, and evocative contributions to scholarship in disability studies and in rhetorical studies. The book’s theoretical and methodological interventions are significant and it offers cogent readings of texts, material culture, bodies, and more. Stephanie Kerschbaum tells powerful stories and draws readers deeply into the material life of disability and its signs. * Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison *
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New York University Press Disabilities of the Color Line
Book SynopsisASALH 2023 Book Prize FinalistReveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in AmericaThrough both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Color Line maintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability.In place of a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement alike are shunned, Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the disabilities of the color line: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black writers and activists such as David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen CraTrade ReviewIn this bold and timely study, Dennis Tyler shows that the color line is not just a twentieth century problem, but one that began in the era of slavery and extends to the ongoing racialization of police brutality and the health disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Tyler’s account, the color line is not exclusively about race, but about the entanglement of blackness and disability. Drawing on a wide range of texts, he perceptively shows how disability was enlisted to shape conceptions of blackness in the United States, and a counter-tradition in which black authors confront what Tyler calls ‘disabilities of the color line’ to challenge racial injustice and demand redress. * Rachel Adams, Columbia University *For too long, a conceivable but unfounded myth has been endemic in disability studies: the idea that Black thinkers have distanced themselves from affiliations with disability in contesting the racist construction of Blackness as inherently disabled. Disabilities of the Color Line puts this theory to bed once and for all, establishing a robust record of Black intellectuals’ sustained and complex engagement with disability as both a stigma and a literal condition that white supremacist legal and political systems impose upon Black people. -- Elizabeth Bowen * Public Books, Editors' Choice 2022 *
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University of Minnesota Press Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant
Book SynopsisRevealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical marketsWhat happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory Futures follows these implants from development to domestication and their unequal distribution in India, Michele Ilana Friedner explores biotechnical intervention in the realm of disability and its implications for state politics in the Global South. A signing and speaking deaf bilateral cochlear implant user, Friedner weaves personal reflections into this fine-grained ethnography of everyday negotiations, activist aspirations, and the space of the family. She places sensory anthropology in conversation with disability studies to analyze how normative sensoria are cultivated and the pursuit of listening and speaking capability is enacted. She argues that the conditions of potentiality that have emerged through cochlear implantation have, in fact, resulted in ever narrower understandings of future life possibilities. Rejecting sensory hierarchies that privilege audition, Friedner calls for multisensory, multimodal, and multipersonal ways of relating to the world. Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds and grapple with what their futures might look like, in India and beyond, amid a surge in both biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities offered by both biotechnological and social “cures.”Trade Review"Michele Friedner’s book is a gem—I can’t think of anything else like it. Scaling from the pronunciation of 's' by a deaf American child who will someday become an ethnographer to Indian state partnerships with biotech corporations, we encounter many ways to be hearing and deaf. And we see this communicative abundance whittled away by repressive transnational infrastructures as well as local rules, tests, and disability bureaucracies. To my mind, Sensory Futures is the union of medical anthropology, STS, and disability studies at its finest."—Mara Mills, cofounder and codirector, NYU Center for Disability Studies"Sensory Futures compels us to question what it means to live with disability as an ongoing process of becoming. Michele Friedner excels at describing the everyday demands of disability and normality in India. Engaging, insightful, and careful, this extraordinary book spotlights the reshaping of state power and technological promise through the everyday intimacies of multisensory life."—Harris Solomon, author of Lifelines: The Traffic of TraumaTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and AnonymizationIntroduction: Sensory, Modal, and Relational Narrowing through Cochlear Implants1. Disability Camps and Surgical Celebrations: Indian Disability Interventions and the Creation of Complex Dependencies2. Becoming Unisensory: Creating a Child’s Social Sense through Auditory Verbal Therapy and Total Communication3. Mothers’ Work: Intersensing and Learning to Talk like a Cricket Commentator4. (Non-)Use: Maintaining Devices, Relationships, and Senses5. Becoming Normal: Potentiality Beyond PassingConclusion: Beyond the Bad S: Making Space for Sensory UnrulinessAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Five Indian Cochlear Implant TrajectoriesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Bristol University Press Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From
Book SynopsisOutlining the key developments of the Disability Hate Crime policy agenda, Seamus Taylor brings together a unique consideration of the theoretical and practical questions at its heart. This book analyses the contributions of activists, politicians, policymakers and criminal justice system practitioners to policy development, and critiques both the under-recognition of disability prejudice fuelled by ableism and the challenge of vulnerability in addressing disability hostility. Concluding that a critically reflective approach on the part of policymakers and practitioners can lead to progress, the author gives clear policy recommendations to address current challenges in the criminal justice system.Trade Review"Compelling and rich in evidence, this timely new book challenges us to question prevailing assumptions about Disability Hate Crime. Essential reading for anyone seeking to develop fresh ways of thinking about and responding to an urgent set of problems." Neil Chakraborti, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester"Taylor provides a clear, comprehensive and compelling account of the development of policy on Disability Hate Crime – a go to text for scholars, policymakers and practitioners." Rt Hon Lord David Blunkett, former Home Secretary"Taylor draws on his unique experiences as a policymaker and scholar to help us understand the true nature of Disability Hate Crime and why it really matters. Essential reading for anyone interested in ensuring justice for disabled people." Joanna Perry, Independent Consultant (Hate Crime) and former Hate Crime Advisor, OSCE, Warsaw“This must-read book provides original insight into the policy progress made, or lack thereof, in tackling Disability Hate Crime. It implores the reader to reconsider how ableism informs this odious form of victimization.” Mark Walters, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex"Brilliant and timely, this compelling account of an under-explored area is a passionate call to arms. Taylor lays bare the real meaning of these crimes and of society’s continuing failure to address them. His book is a demand for justice." Ken Macdonald QC, former Master of Wadham College, Oxford University and Director of Public Prosecutions 2003–8“This book is long overdue: a welcome account of the development of Disability Hate Crime and a timely challenge about the way forward.” Sir Keir Starmer QC MP"Taylor has been at the centre of Disability Hate Crime policy development for some years. He is ideally placed to describe this journey and, most importantly, the action that is still needed to provide equitable rights and protections to disabled people." Paul Giannasi OBE, National Policing Advisor for Hate Crime, HM GovernmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Fifteen Cases of Disability Hate Crime 3. From Hate Crime to Disability Hate Crime 4. Agenda Triggering 5. Agenda Development 6. Towards Agenda Institutionalization? 7. Problem with the Current Agenda: The Focus on Vulnerability 8. An Agenda Item Yet to Fully Speak Its Name: Ableism and Disability Hate Crime 9. Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Parents and Their Deaf Children
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Haymarket Books Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the
Book SynopsisA collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals."One essayist and grocery store worker describes what it is like to be an “essential worker” during the pandemic; another reporter and military veteran details his experience with homelessness and what would have actually helped him at the time. These dozens of fierce and sometimes darkly funny pieces reflect the larger systems that have made writers' bodily experiences, family and home lives, and work far harder than they ought to be.Featuring introductions by luminaries including Michelle Tea, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, Going for Broke is revelatory. It shows us the costs of income inequality to our bodies and our minds—and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions.Trade Review"The subjects' voices jump from the page with pain and hope. More than that, they’re a provocation to the reader to consider the fine line between the lives of the “middle precariat” and their own, if there is one. Whether it’s the ironies of telling working people not to smoke when the system does precious little to secure basic health care, an underpaid adjunct instructor handing her EBT card to her student clerking at the local grocery store, or a person with hearing impairments whose doctor thinks that hiding her condition as a “surprise” for a medical student is a hilarious joke, the editors position the voices of the disadvantaged as compelling, worth listening to, and valuable." —Booklist, Starred Review"These emotionally charged and heart-wrenching narratives are both wide-ranging and powerfully rendered.... A penetrating collection that is certain to challenge the readers’ views of those living in poverty." —Kirkus"Going for Broke is a gut punch, a collective portrait of precarity, a book of testimony and astonishing courage. This is a book with a pulse. It’s angry, as it must be, and often beautiful, and always brilliant with the illumination of injustice. These essays and memoirs and poems and pictures—this documentary art—is vital, intimate, and necessary. Please, read this heartbreaking, heart-mending volume.”—Jeff Sharlet, New York Times-bestselling author of The Undertow and The Family“Going for Broke is an illuminating compendium of essays, poetry, photos and illustrations about the impact of inequality, bias, and poverty on the lives and careers of professional mediamakers. These deeply personal accounts deliver keen critiques of fractured and dehumanizing systems, but they also offer unexpected solutions and reveal the depth of human resilience. Going for Broke is ultimately a powerful example of why diversity in media matters—that journalism informed by a variety of lived experiences leads us to a more profound understanding of our disjointed, dynamic world.”—Bernice Yeung, author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers“This moving anthology breaks down the barriers between experience and interpretation. Its contributors explore the underside of American society from many angles. But they do more than document hardship—they show how ordinary people who’ve been exploited and left behind forge understanding and solidarity out of the experience.”—Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America“What the informative, insightful, nuanced, and gut-wrenching stories in Going for Broke show, over and over, is that the only difference between the haves and the have-nots is opportunity…. An eloquent plea…. As both EHRP and Going for Broke argue, policy and reporting will only be effective when informed by – if not actually driven by – the people that know what they’re talking about.” —PopMattersTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONBy Alissa QuartSection 1. THE BODYIntroduction by Camonghne Felix“A Stay At Kings County” by Charlie Gross“I Did My Own Abortion” by Anonymous“Women afraid of dying while /they are trying to find their life” by Alissa Quart & Katha Pollitt“Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body. But It Has Abandoned My Brain” by Katie Prout“Love and War” by Karie Fugett“My Disability Is My Superpower: If Only Employers Could See It That Way.” by Andrea Dobynes and Deborah Jian Lee“A Trip to the Nail Salon with Missing Fingers” By Kim Kelly“Traumatic Pregnancies Are Awful. Dobbs Will Make Them So Much Worse” by Alissa Quart“The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma” by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington“To Help the Homeless, Offer Shelter That Allows Deep Sleep” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“Inequity In Maternal Health Care Left Me With Undiagnosed Postpartum PTSD” by Courtney Lund O’Neil“Anything of Value” by Lorelei Lee2. HomeIntroduction by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor“Homeless in a Pandemic” by Jennifer Fitzgerald“I Was Given a House for Free But It Already Belonged to Someone Else” by Anne Elizabeth Moore“I Grew Up Without a Fixed Address” by Bobbi Dempsey“Evictionland” by Joseph Williams“37,000 US Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them” by Alex Miller“Why I Choose to Live House-Free in Alaska” by Joe Ford“I Was Wrongly Detained at the Border. It’s Part of a Larger Problem” by David Wallis“I Watched War Erupt in the Balkans. Here’s What I See in America Today” by Elizabeth Rubin“A Fierce Desire to Stay: Looking At West Virginia Through Its People’s Eyes” by Elizabeth Catte, Matt Eich, and Doug Van Gundy3. FamilyIntroduction by Michelle Tea“Heartbreaking Images from a Photographer Grappling with a Complex Past,” photos by Jordan Gale“When My Father Called Me About His Unemployment” by Lisa Ventura“I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?” by Annabelle Gurwitch“My Marriage Was Broken: The Coronavirus Lockdown Saved It” By Robert Fieseler“PS 42” by Celina Su, photo by Annie Ling“My Sister Is a Recovering Heroin Addict” by Elizabeth Kadetsky“In the Pandemic, Cooking Connected Me to My Ancestors” by Elizabeth Gollan“The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care” by Julie Poole“The Worst Part About Being Poor: Watching Your Dog Die” by Bobbi Dempsey“Nomen Est Omen” by Mitchell S. Jackson4. Work Introduction by Kathi Weeks“How the Taxi Workers Won” by Molly Crabapple“My Pandemic Year Behind the Checkout Counter” by Ann Larson“From Academic to Assembly Line Worker” by Gloria Diaz“Once Upon a Time, ‘Waitress’ Was a Union Job. Could History Repeat Itself?” by Haley Hamilton“Why I Check the “Black” Box” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“My Life As a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor” by Joseph Williams“What It’s Like Riding Along with a Valet Driver at a San Francisco Strip Club” photos by Rian Dundon“You Talk Real Good” by Alison Stine“The Secret Lives of Adjunct Professors” by Gila Berryman“The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work” by Alissa Quart and Rodrigo Toscano; photo by David Bacon “Zen and the Art of Uber Driving” by John Koopman5. ClassIntroduction by Astra Taylor“The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor” Words by Erynn Brook, illustrations by Emily Flake“That Sinking Feeling” by Ray Suarez“Off Our Butts” by June Thunderstorm“Never-ending Sentences,” by Philip Metres“The Dignity of the Thrift Store” by Elizabeth Gollan“Class Dismissed” by Alison Stine“For Years, I’ve Tried to Work My Way Back into the Middle Class” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“What Does it Mean to Be ‘Bad with Money?’” by Joshua Hunt
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Emerald Publishing Limited Fostering Global Citizenship
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Policy Press Understanding Disability Policy
Book SynopsisIn an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding disability policy locates disability policy into broader social policy and welfare policy writings and goes beyond narrow statutory evaluations of welfare to embrace a range of indicators of disabled people's welfare. The book critically explores the roles of social security, social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, official discourses and spatial change in shaping disabled people's opportunities. It also situates welfare and disability policy in the broader conceptual shifts to the social model of disability and its critics. Finally it explores the possible connection between changing official and academic constructions of disability and their implications for social policy in the 21st century. The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers using the book, which is available from the link above.Trade Review"Roulstone and Prideaux have composed a beautiful book. It is engaging, accessible and meticulously written with a steady rhythm that invites the reader ... I have no hesitation in recommending this book. It's easy to read, conceptually clear and logically mapped out." British Journal of Social Work"Understanding Disability Policy is a sophisticated and elegant book which engages with inherently complex and contested issues with conceptual clarity ... Roulstone and Prideaux have produced here an essential read for those from social work, disability studies and all policy backgrounds." British Journal of Social Policy"Understanding Disability Policy is a sophisticated and elegant book which engages with inherently complex and contested issues with conceptual clarity." Toby Brandon Journal of Social Policy"Contemporary, inclusive with an acute awareness of the changing force of policy upon disabled people" Alison Martland, University Centre at Blackburn College"This comprehensive and engaging book is a valuable addition to disability studies and to social policy more generally. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with either the legacy of social policy responses to the 'problem' of disability or with current debates about the future development of disability policy." Hannah Morgan, Lancaster University"Disability policy has changed dramatically over the last fifty years and especially so since the turn of 21st century. Roulstone and Prideaux have produced a comprehensive and accessible analysis of these changes that will prove to be an invaluable text for students, researchers and policy analysts across a range of disciplines: highly recommended." Colin Barnes, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Contextualising disability welfare policy; Cure, care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage; Clauses for conditionality: activating disabled adults; Aiming high enough? Disabled children and the mainstream lives; Getting it right? The impact of recent disability policy; Out of the labyrinth: the disability benefits system unpacked; Widening the policy gaze: what can we learn from comparative disability policy analysis; Conclusions.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of
Book SynopsisDrawing extensively on personal experiences, this important volume looks at sexuality and relationships in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, painting a genuine picture of the range of sexualities and relationships people want. Honest and reflective, it shows how sexuality has been managed and controlled in different countries. It explores a range of issues such as rights, resilience, protection, sexual oppression and the lack of privacy for those living in care institutions. Co-edited and with contributions by people with intellectual disabilities and allies, this unique book offers an authentic account of the challenges people face and what society needs to do to respect people's rights.Providing insight into a morally, ethically and legally complex area, this book will be essential reading for people with intellectual disabilities, their advocates, families and supporters; social care managers, social workers, and other professionals working in the field as well as academic researchers and students.Trade ReviewThis important book brings together contributors from across the world to remind us of the desires of, and the restrictions placed upon, the sexual lives of people with the label of intellectual disabilities. Combining an accessible writing style, with shared contributions from activists and academics, this text centralises sex and sexuality at the heart of a politics of intellectual disability. -- Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, the University of Sheffield, England(The authors) use people's stories and experiences, researching into the thoughts and memories of people who use services as well as the staff who worked with them. This gives us a useful and very readable historical perspective... They repeatedly highlight the issue of protection and safety verses rights to a sex life and how difficult it is to enshrine both in any law...the issues of equality and diversity are naturally included... People's stories from around the world also remind us of the role religion has to play in this, from influencing laws and policy to restrictions in sex education. -- Andrew Holeman, Director of Inspired Services Publishing Ltd * Community Living *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rohhss Chapman, Louise Townson, Sue Ledger and Daniel Docherty. Ch2: Stories from Around the Globe. Sue Ledger, Rohhss Chapman, Louise Townson. Ch3: Intimacy and Oppression: a Historical Perspective, Lee-Ann Monk, La Trobe University, Australia. Ch4: The Story of Ebba and Jonni: This is Our Story, Eyglo Ebba Hreinsdottir and Sigurjon Jonni Gretarsson with Guorun V.Stefansdottir. Ch5: I Would Have Broken the Law Several Times: Clare Inclusive Research Group, Ger Minogue, Martin Corry, Marie Deely, Patrick Kearney, Joe McGrath, Kathleen O'Leary and Pauline Skehan with Rob Hopkins and Kelley Johnson. Ch6: "Once in Six Weeks? That's Not a Relationship!", Our New Future Group with Toon Maillard. Ch7:The Paradox of Intimacy in Japan: Shifting Objects of Affection. Eiji Tsuda, University of Kobe, Japan and Takako Ueto. Ch8: The Maltese Odyssey, Claire Azzopardi-Lane with an introduction by Louise Townson. Ch9: 'Molly is Just Like Me': Peer Education and Life Stories in Sexuality Programs in Australia. Ch10: Emergent Themes from Part one, Sue Ledger, Rohhss Chapman and Louise Townson. Ch11: Law, Policy and Diversity: Exploring the Gap Between Rhetoric and Real Life, Sue Ledger, Rohhss Chapman and Louise Townson. Ch12: Promoting Sexualalities and Protecting from Abuse, Rachel Fyson with an introduction by Louise Townson. Ch13: Far more people were able to have sex lives: managing sex relationships and reproductive control. Jan Walmsley, Jan Walmsley Associates, UK and Nigel Ingham, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), UK. CH14: This is my Time, My Life, the Way I Am', Alice. Gay Women might need a Rainbow Fairy Group. Clare Miller, Adam Koronka, Lindy Shufflebotham with Sue Ledger. Ch16: Good as You Too(GAY2), Craig Blyth with Daniel Docherty. Ch17: 'I Have Been Blessed to Have a Very Good Support Worker': Experiences Related to Ethnicity and Diversity, Jakie Downer with Linnette Farquarson. CH18: The Final Frontier: Young People with Learning Difficulties and Sex Education, Ruth Garbutt with an introduction by Lyndon Strickland. Ch19: Women Like Soaps and Men Like Football': The Men's Room, Bill, Peter and Alan with Niall McNulty. Ch20: Intellectually Disabled People who Sell or are Sold for Sex in the UK: An Exploration, Craig Blyth and Rohhss Chapman. Ch21: Working in Partnership:The Editor's Stories, Rohhss Chapman, Louise Townson and Sue Ledger. Ch22: Emerging Themes from Part two, Rohhss Chapman, Sue Ledger and Louise Townson. Ch23: Re-Visiting the Research Questions and Future Recommendations, Rohhss Chapman, Sue Ledger and Louise Townson.
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Right Book Press How Horses Help: Breaking the barriers of
Book SynopsisGerry Harrington’s intensely thoughtful and highly informative book draws on her long experience using equine assisted therapy to help educationally and emotionally disadvantaged young adults to find their feet and live independent lives once they have left school. Taking the reader through all the different kinds of mental and emotional challenges which can be addressed and transformed through EAT, and demonstrating how it works in practice through case studies and stories, Gerry Harrington opens a door to a world of potential for parents and carers to explore.
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Sex and the 3 Rs Rights, Risks and
Book SynopsisSex and the 3 Rs (fourth edition) Rights, Risks and Responsibilities is a sex education resource that provides a framework for staff to undertake sex education work which acknowledges the realities of sexual relationships for many people with learning disabilities. An extensive range of issues relating to sexuality are discussed with suggestions for assessment, service responses to, and work around the issue. The pack directly tackles difficult subjects, including pornography, sexual abuse of children, consent in relationships and safer sex.This new edition is fully revised and updated with additional material covering recent policy and legislative changes. Like its predecessor, this training resource is aimed primarily at those working with adults with learning disabilities, however parts of it can be adapted for use with younger people. Sex and the 3 Rs (fourth edition) has been updated as a result of industry changes that are currently impacting upon the sexual lives of people with learning disabilities and the increasing amount of time many people spend online which subsequently, then affects their personal, social and sexual lives.This new fourth edition gives some ideas on how to support people with learning disabilities to safely access online pornography and engage in 'sexting'. Fully revised edition; includes photocopiable line drawings and comprehensive guide to teaching sex education to people with learning disabilities.Table of ContentsSection 1: Contexts1.1: The Law 1.2: Race, culture, ethnicity and religion1.3: The environment and opportunities for relationships1.4: Syndromes, physical disability and medication1.5: Confidentiality 1.6: Guidelines, policies and care plans1.7: Staff supervision and safeguardsSection 2: Individual work2. 1: Why do individual work?2.2: Who should do the work? 2.3: The importance of trust 2.4: Outside help 2.5: Sensitivity to sexual lifestyles 2.6: Does the individual want to do the work? 2.7: Where should individual work take place? 2.8: Length and time 2.9: Communication2.10: The implications of talking about yourself2.11: Accepting the reality of people's lives 2.12: Skills required 2.13: Supervision 2.14: Limits 2.15: Evaluating individual workSection 3: Group work3.1: Possibilities and limits 3.2: Single-sex or mixed groups? 3.3: Facilitators and co-facilitators 3.4: Group size3.5: Practical arrangements3.6: Time span of groups 3.7: Finding group members 3.8: The abilities of group members 3.9: Confidentiality 3.10: Methods 3.11: Setting the agenda. 3.12: A suggested outline for a 14-week course Section 4: Issues4.1: General sex education 4.2: Appropriate and inappropriate masturbation4.3: How to masturbate 4.4: Menstruation 4.5: Menopause4.6: Sensitivity in relationships4.7: Assertiveness and saying no4.8: Consent 4.9: Sex between people of different abilities4.10: Men having sex with men4.11: Women having sex with women 4.12: Women wanting and having boyfriends 4.13: Women having sex with men4.14: Men wanting and having girlfriends4.15: Men having sex with women 4.16: People being sexually abused 4.17: Men with learning disabilities who sexually abuse 4.18: Sexual risk to children 4.19: Sexually transmitted diseases and safer sex 4.20: Men with learning disabilities having sex with men in public toilets 4.21: Sexual and reproductive health screening 4.22: Pornography and the internet4.23: Access to sex workers4.24: Reproduction 4.25: Contraception 4.26: Marriage and civil partnerships4.27: Forced marriage4.28: Domestic violence4.29: 'Mate' crime4.30: Parenting4.31: Abortion 4.32: Men with learning disabilities cross-dressing and other unconventional sexual behavioursSection 5: Notes on the pictures5.1: Considerations for using the pictures5.2: Description of each picture and ideas for use 5.3: Catalogue of pictures Section 6: Resources and organisationsResourcesOrganisations
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd A Mismatch of Salience: Explorations from the
Book SynopsisA Mismatch of Salience brings together a range of Damian Milton's writings that span more than a decade. The book explores the communication and understanding difficulties that can create barriers between people on the autism spectrum and neurotypical people. It celebrates diversity in communication styles and human experience by re framing the view that autistic people represent a `disordered other' not as an impairment, but a two-way mismatch of salience. It also looks at how our current knowledge has been created by non-autistic people on the `outside', looking in. A Mismatch of Salience attempts to redress this balance.Table of ContentsContents include: Part one: This thing called autism So what exactly is autism? `Problems in living' and the mental well-being of autistic people Natures answer to over-conformity: a deconstruction of pathological demand avoidance Impaired compared to what? Embodiment and diversity Part two: A mismatch of salience On the Ontological Status of Autism: the `Double Empathy Problem' Embodied sociality and the conditioned relativism of dispositional diversity Autistic expertise: a critical reflection on the production of knowledge in autism studies Part three: From theory to practice `Filling in the gaps', a micro-sociological analysis of autism So what exactly are autism interventions intervening with? Tracing the influence of Fernand Deligny on autism studies 7 concepts of sociological interest Part four: Participation Autistics speak but are they heard? Moments in time Aut-ethnography: working from the inside out How is a sense of well-being and belonging constructed in the accounts of autistic adults? Educational discourse and the autistic student: a study using Q-sort methodology (thesis summary)
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Leaning Rock Press LLC Yes: The Story of a Dreamer
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Strategic Book Publishing Live Life From The Heart: 52 Weeks to a Life of
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Springer International Publishing AG Technology and Disability: 50 Years of Trace R&D Center Contributions and Lessons Learned
Book SynopsisThis book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to establish global frameworks and infrastructures for accessibility. This book is premised on the Center’s mission to maximize the potential of people with disabilities by harnessing evolving technologies while at the same time dismantling the barriers created by those same technological advancements. Readers will learn how this has been done in the past and why this practice should be a fundamental and integrated feature in new technology planning and implementation. The book touches on pre-internet technologies before exploring the huge implications of, first, the personal computer and, second, the Internet. In parallel with the massive growth in scale rendered by the launch of the Web, the book traces the expansion of the Center’s focus from the individual to the universal, particularly in working to establish accessibility standards and infrastructures. Learning from the successes and failures of the Center, the book outlines many past challenges and future directions for the development of technologies for people with disabilities from the research and industry perspectives.Table of ContentsTrace Center Origin and Evolution.- Augmentative Communication (1971–).- Pre-Internet/Pre-Web Summative Information (1970s–1990s).- Computer Access (1980–).- Electronic Consumer Products and General Accessibility (1990–).- Web Access (1990–).- Telecommunication Access (1990–).- Kiosks and Information—Transaction Machine Access (1999–).- Accessibility Infrastructure (2010 –).- Move to University of Maryland (2016).- Elements that Have Defined the Trace Center.- Some Lessons Learned from Trace’s First 50 Years.- Trace’s Focus for the Next Decade(s) (2021–).
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De Gruyter Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and
Book Synopsis This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right to play for children with disabilities. Play is vital for child development. The problem of 'play deprivation' for many children with disabilities is very real. Yet the right to, and value of 'play for the sake of play', for fun and recreation, must not be forgotten in relation to the lives of children with disabilities. The focus in this report is upon barriers to play that exist beyond the minds and bodies of individual children, within a 'disabling' environment. Barriers include those associated with the design of the built environment, social attitudes and professional practices. The report maps an agenda for further research in this area, emphasising the need for participatory methodologies that capture the views and voices of children with disabilities, their friends and families, on this important issue of play. ABSTRACTING & INDEXING Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities is covered by the following services: Baidu ScholarBarnes & NobleBayerische StaatsbibliothekBDSBoDBowker Book DataCNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)DimensionsDOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)EBSCOElsevier – Scopus BooksExLibrisGoogle BooksGoogle ScholarNavigaReadCubeSemantic ScholarTDOne (TDNet)WorldCat (OCLC)X-MOLAdditionally, the proceedings volume is registered and indexed in the Crossref database and accessible on Amazon.
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HarperCollins India Goldiboy and the Three Apes: An Isspeshal Fairy
Book SynopsisAfter all, awareness and understanding are what lead to acceptance. Something to make this world a more inclusive and isspeshal place.
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Westland Publications Limited This Kind of Child: The 'Disability' Story
Book SynopsisWhen she started working on the book, it was Srilataâs daughter who was its protagonist. But soon, she realised that there was no way she could stop with her daughterâs story.
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Transcript Verlag Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters Between
Book SynopsisWhich theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy. It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.
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The University of Alabama Press Disability Civil Rights and Public Policy
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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
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Duke University Press Menace to the Future
Book SynopsisIn Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal that state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization were done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary and thus posed a biological threat—a so-called menace to the future. Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call “carceral eugenics” informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent peop
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New York University Press Distressing Language
Book SynopsisThe role of disability and deafness in art Distressing Language is full of mistakeserrors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical and intellectual differences challenge our understanding of art and poetry. Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken? How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of "sounding good"? Distressing Language grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence. Davidson maintains that verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge. Davidson discusses a range of sites, from captioning errors and Bad Lip Reads on YouTube, to the deaf artist Christine Sun Kim's audiovisual installations, and a poetic reinterpretation of the Biblical Shibboleth responding to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Deafness becomes a guide in each chapter of Distressing Language, giving us a closer look at a range of artistic mediums and how artists are working with the axiom of "error" to produce novel subjecthoods and possibilities.Trade ReviewDrawing on his own experience of increasing deafness, Davidson provides an engrossing look into the ways that slips or unusual forms of language can unexpectedly lead to new meanings and beauty. Distressing Language expertly weaves together modern poetry and fiction, popular culture, sign language art, theory, politics, and history, and is often as funny as it is profound. * Christopher Krentz, author of Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature *A highly original account of language, meaning, and sound, all framed through hearing loss. In Davidson’s account, meaning and value come from things not working the way they are supposed to. But rather than fetishizing technical glitch or aesthetic failure, he processes meaning through a disability hermeneutic. Throughout Distressing Language, the lines between poetry, sound art, and music are intentionally blurred and violated, while the meaning of sound is foregrounded as something especially important for those who have limited access to it. * Jonathan Sterne, McGill University *
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University of Minnesota Press The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and
Book SynopsisA philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: “let there be a law that no deformed child shall live.” This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy.Joel Michael Reynolds argues that this history demonstrates a fundamental mischaracterization of the meaning of disability, thanks to the conflation of lived experiences of disability with those of pain and suffering. Building on decades of activism and scholarship in the field, Reynolds shows how longstanding views of disability are misguided and unjust, and he lays out a vision of what an anti-ableist moral future requires.The Life Worth Living is the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of the history of moral philosophy and phenomenology, and it demonstrates how lived experiences of disability demand a far richer account of human flourishing, embodiment, community, and politics in philosophical inquiry and beyond.Trade Review"In this philosophically ambitious and deeply personal book, Joel Michael Reynolds exposes the ableist mistake that has afflicted philosophy at least since Socrates asked what makes a life worth living. To repair the damage done by that mistake, Reynolds exhorts us to stop looking for the worth of human lives in individual ‘normate’ bodies and to start building systems of access and care that make it possible for people with all sorts of bodies to flourish. Anyone committed to understanding what disability justice requires should read this book."—Erik Parens, director, The Hastings Center Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities"Joel Michael Reynolds’s The Life Worth Living is the most insightful analysis of pain since Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain. His phenomenology of foreboding, beholdenness, bioreckoning, and disruption is brilliant. And his critical engagement with ableist assumptions that run throughout the history of thought and continue into contemporary medical discourses powerfully demonstrates that these discourses continue to conflate disability, pain, and harm in ways that devalue ‘disabled’ lives."—Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ableist ConflationPart I. Pain1. Theories of Pain2. A Phenomenology of Chronic PainPart II. Disability3. Theories of Disability4. A Phenomenology of Multiple SclerosisPart III. Ability5. Theories of Ability6. A Phenomenology of AbilityConclusion: An Anti-Ableist FutureAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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