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| Title: | The disability reader : social science perspectives / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Shakespeare |
| ISBN: | 030433975X (hardback : acid-free paper); 9780304339754 (hardback : acid-free paper); 0304339768 (paperback : acid-free paper); 9780304339761 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-306) and index. Content: 1. A Critical Condition / Paul Hunt -- 2. Independent Living and the Medical Model of Disability / Simon Brisenden -- 3. Emancipating Disability Studies / Vic Finkelstein -- 4. Sociology, Disability Studies and Education: Some Observations / Len Barton -- 5. The Social Model of Disability: A Sociological Phenomenon Ignored by Sociologists? / Colin Barnes -- 6. The Spectre at the Feast: Disabled People and Social Theory / Paul Abberley -- 7. The Best Burgers? The Person with Learning Difficulties as Worker / Stephen Baron, Sheila Riddell and Heather Wilkinson -- 8. Researching a Disabling Society: The Case of Employment and New Technology / Alan Roulstone -- 9. Oppression, Disability and Access in the Built Environment / Rob Imrie -- 10. Enabling Identity: Disability, Self and Citizenship / Nicholas Watson -- 11. Body Battles: Bodies, Gender and Disability / Helen Meekosha -- 12. Understanding Cinematic Representations of Disability / Paul Darke -- 13. Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement / Ayesha Vernon -- 14. Still out in the Cold: People with Learning Difficulties and the Social Model of Disability / Anne Louise Chappell -- 15. Disability Discourse in a Postmodern World / Mairian Corker -- 16. The Sociology of Disability: Towards a Materialist Phenomenology / Gareth Williams -- 17. Activists and Academics: Part of the Same or a World Apart? / Penny Germon. |
| Description: | viii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. A Critical Condition / Paul Hunt -- 2. Independent Living and the Medical Model of Disability / Simon Brisenden -- 3. Emancipating Disability Studies / Vic Finkelstein -- 4. Sociology, Disability Studies and Education: Some Observations / Len Barton -- 5. The Social Model of Disability: A Sociological Phenomenon Ignored by Sociologists? / Colin Barnes -- 6. The Spectre at the Feast: Disabled People and Social Theory / Paul Abberley -- 7. The Best Burgers? The Person with Learning Difficulties as Worker / Stephen Baron, Sheila Riddell and Heather Wilkinson -- 8. Researching a Disabling Society: The Case of Employment and New Technology / Alan Roulstone -- 9. Oppression, Disability and Access in the Built Environment / Rob Imrie -- 10. Enabling Identity: Disability, Self and Citizenship / Nicholas Watson -- 11. Body Battles: Bodies, Gender and Disability / Helen Meekosha -- 12. Understanding Cinematic Representations of Disability / Paul Darke -- 13. Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement / Ayesha Vernon -- 14. Still out in the Cold: People with Learning Difficulties and the Social Model of Disability / Anne Louise Chappell -- 15. Disability Discourse in a Postmodern World / Mairian Corker -- 16. The Sociology of Disability: Towards a Materialist Phenomenology / Gareth Williams -- 17. Activists and Academics: Part of the Same or a World Apart? / Penny Germon. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Tom Shakespeare. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Disability reader. London ; New York : Cassell, 1998 (OCoLC)607024465 |
| Year: | 1998. |
| Publisher: | London ; New York : Cassell, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 97043065; National Library: 009395483 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1568.25.G7; Dewey No.: 362.4/0941 |
| OCLC No.: | 37813552 |
Abstract:
This collection of articles explores the intellectual implications of a disability equality perspective. Leading social scientists draw on current theory and research and offer an outstanding overview of contemporary debates.
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