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Disability
- Authors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Polity
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 186p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This book provides an introduction to current social science debates on disability. It chronicles how disabled people and their organizations have challenged the conventional, individualistic and medical explanations for disabled people's individual and collective disadvantage. This is an approach that is, as yet, not fully explored by mainstream sociology and social policy. The authors draw on a burgeoning ‘disability studies' literature from around the world, and from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, highlighting disabled peoples' exclusion and marginalization in key areas of social activity and participation across different historical and cultural contexts. These include family life and reproduction, education, employment, leisure, cultural imagery and politics. The analysis concentrates on disability as a distinctive form of social oppression similar to that experienced by women, minority ethnic and ‘racial' groups, and lesbians and gay men. Issues addressed include: theorising disability; historical and comparative perspectives; experiencing impairment and disability; professional and policy intervention in the lives of disabled people; disability politics, social policy and citizenship; and disability culture.The authors offer a wide-ranging critique of established academic, policy and professional orthodoxies. The continuing theme is how the new ways of approaching disability can inform and be informed by sociological and policy analysis and research.
Constructions of disability: researching the interface between disabled and non-disabled people
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 164p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The book discusses the meanings of 'inclusion' through an exploration of the interactions between non-disabled and disabled people at a community leisure center. In exploring the nature of this interface, the book takes a very different approach of that of existing texts, which have tended to concentrate solely on disabled people's experiences of exclusion. The author, herself disabled, looks at oppressive practice towards women and people from minority ethnic groups, drawing parallels between their experiences.
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'.
An introduction to disability studies
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE David
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 186p, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
Disability studies is now a legitimate area of academic study. It is multidisciplinary in its critique of oppressions that have historically 'dumped' people on the margins of society. Contents include: critical factors in community care and independent living; legislation in the UK and USA; what is the meaning of quality of life?; euthanasia and the new eugenics; disability research; medical health and disability; the enabling environment.