| Description |
1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Perspectives of Disability and Impairment; 1 -- If I Had a Hammer: The Social Model in Action; 2 -- Representing Disability; 3 -- Disability and Impairment; 4 -- Disability, Disability Studies and the Academy; 5 -- Whose Tragedy? Towards a Personal Non-tragedy View of Disability; 6 -- Dependence, Independence and Normality; 7 -- Reflections on Doing Emancipatory Disability Research; 8 -- International Perspectives on Disability; Part II: In Our Own Image; 9 -- Disability and the Body; 10 -- Women and Disability; 11 -- Men and Disability |
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12 -- 'Can you see the rainbow':The Roots of Denial13 -- Impairment, Difference and 'Identity'; 14 -- Generating Debates: Why we Need a Life Course Approach to Disability Issues; 15 -- The Changing Face of Representations of Disability in the Media; 16 -- Disability Culture: The Story So Far; 17 -- 'Race', Disability and Oppression; 18 -- Who is Disabled? Exploring the Scope of the Social Model of Disability; 19 -- Disabled People, Disability and Sexua |
| Summary |
The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully inter-related by the editors. It is now some 11 years since the first edition of this text was published. In my view, this second edition was worth the wait' - SCOLAG Journal. This has been a ground-breaking book and I whole-heartedly welcome a new edition'- Professor Len Barton, School of |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
French, Sally
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Barnes, Colin
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Thomas, Carol
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| ISBN |
9780857021823 |
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0857021826 |
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