| Description |
viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-306) and index |
| Subject |
Disability studies -- Great Britain.
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Sociology of disability -- Great Britain.
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People with disabilities -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Shakespeare, Tom.
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| LC no. |
97043065 |
| ISBN |
030433975X hardback acid-free paper |
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0304339768 paperback acid-free paper |
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