Disability Theory

Reducere. Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, ...

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression,...

Contributor(s): Author: Alison KaferIn Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challengi...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert McRuerContends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentiv...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2019 AESA CRITICS' CHOICE BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ALISON PIEPMEIER BOOK PRIZELinking power...

Contributor(s): Author: Sami SchalkIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding o...

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, p...

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Reducere. In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest minds of our time. His theories about the universe have changed the way we think about black holes and the ...

Reducere. Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural S...

Reducere. 'Graded Exposure' was a course developed by Louis to help physiotherapists to integrate theory into practise. Topics include; the biomedical model;...

Reducere. Understanding how the brain learns helps teachers do their jobs more effectively. Primary researchers share the latest findings on the learning pro...

Reducere. In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942-2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debat...

Reducere. DescriptionEpidemiology is often referred to as the science of public health. However, unlike other major sciences, its theoretical foundations are...

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and an invitation to imagine a better-designed wor...

Reducere. There is growing interest in "therapeutic narratives" and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practic...

While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been u...

Reducere. The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing...

Reducere. Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practition...

Reducere. A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Ir...

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portr...

DescriptionThis second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in...

This accessible text focuses on diversity in education and the inclusion of all children and young people in all aspects of the school or college c...

DescriptionProviding new approaches for exploring gender identity and expression, this book is ideal for clinical practice with transgender and gen...

Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Mate...

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, o...

Reducere. In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation--pleasure, pain, or a combination...

Contributor(s): Author: Donna BainesThis updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-...

Reducere. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among...

Reducere. From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman. A moving novel for middle-grade readers that is not about overcoming disabilit...