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Towards an affirmation model of disability
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.569-582.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. This view has arisen in direct opposition to the dominant personal tragedy model of disability and impairment, and builds on the liberatory imperative of the social model. In this analysis the affirmation model addresses the limitations of the social model through the realisation of positive identity encompassing impairment, as well as disability.
Disability discourse
- Editors:
- CORKER Mairian, FRENCH Sally
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Draws on personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography, and contextual studies to emphasise the multi dimensional and multifunctional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability and to locate disability more firmly within contemporary mainstream social and cultural theory.
From a different viewpoint: the lives and experiences of visually impaired people
- Authors:
- FRENCH Sally, SWAIN John
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 80p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Workbook designed to help young people explore the lives and experiences of visually impaired people. Uses case studies and interviews and explores issues around disability in general.
Confronting disabling barriers: towards making organisations accessible
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, GILLMAN Maureen, FRENCH Sally
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 84p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
There are many different types of barriers which prevent disabled people's full and equal participation in society: not only physical barriers created by lack of access to buildings and transport systems, but also social and economic barriers resulting from unequal access to education, employment and services; lack of representation and involvement in local planning and politics; and a limited understanding of the nature of disablement.
In whose service? A review of the development of services for disabled people
- Author:
- FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Traces the history of welfare provision for disabled people from the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the medical profession, the Eugenics movement, post-war services, deinstitutionalisation and the role of disabled people.
On equal terms: working with disabled people
- Editor:
- FRENCH Sally
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 291p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Collection of papers. Discusses the meaning of disability as disabled people perceive it and goes on to focus on issues relating to practice, including: gender and disability; disabled people from minority ethnic groups; the abuse of disabled people; researching disability; legislation; and innovative practice.
Controversial issues in a disabling society
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally, CAMERON Colin
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 198p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Examines the consequences of the social model of disability. From this point of view society is itself at fault, that is a disabling society that is geared to, built for and by, and controlled by non-disabled people. This exclusion of disabled people is created and constructed in every aspect of living including language, thinking, the built environment and power structures and regulations. This model asserts that whether one is disabled or not, one lives within a 'disabling society'.