The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires

This work focuses on disability and sexuality. It raises issues about civil rights and individual freedoms, and considers how these impact on current debates on gender studies, sexual/political and cultural studies.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davies, Dominic

Shakespeare, Tom

Gillespie-Sells, Kath

Psychology & Counseling

UNKNO

The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives

This collection of articles explores the intellectual implications of a disability equality perspective. Topics include: the relevance of social theory; disabling architecture; feminist theory and the body; cultural representations; identity and interaction; and employment and education.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Disability Rights and Wrongs

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end.  Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include:  dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people  identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics  bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies  care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship.  This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

Routledge

Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.  This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include:    dichotomies – going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of disability    identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics     bioethics - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies     relationships – feminist and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance and friendship.    This stimulating and accessible book challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: <ul>
<li>dichotomies – going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of disability</li> <li>identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics </li> <li>bioethics - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies </li> <li>relationships – feminist and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance and friendship. </li> </ul>
This stimulating and accessible book challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

Exploring Disability

Barnes, Colin

Mercer, Geof

Polity

This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction

Disability: The Basics

Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including: <ul>
<li>the diversity of the disability experience;</li> <li>disability rights and advocacy;</li> <li>ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world;</li> <li>the daily realities of living with an impairment or illness;</li> <li>health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people;</li> <li>ethical issues at the beginning and end of life.</li> </ul>
Disability: The Basics aims to provide readers with an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people and highlight the continuing gaps and barriers in social responses to the challenge of disability. This book is suitable for lay people, students of disability studies as well as students taking a disability module as part of a wider course within social work, health care, sociology, nursing, policy and media studies.

British artist Lucy Jones has been described by art critic Jackie Wullschlager as "the most exciting English colorist of her generation''&nbsp;With a clear and often brutally frank vision, her paintings connect a journey through exterior landscapes and interior worlds. &nbsp; Awkward Beauty&nbsp;is the first publication to draw together both her portraits and landscape paintings produced over the past 25 years, tracing the evolution of a distinctively vibrant painterly language, which she has used to describe the world, herself and, most recently, other people. Illustrated with more than 100 color plates, the book demonstrates Jones's broad emotional range, from densely chromatic and vigorously wrought vistas painted in the British countryside, to her raw and powerfully expressive presentations of the figure, addressing the vulnerabilities and the strengths of Jones's own disabilities, and society's way of viewing difference in others.

Awkward Beauty: The Art of Lucy Jones

Arts & Photography

Jansen, Charlotte

Vann, Philip

Individual Artists

Laurence King Publishing

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Books by Shakespeare, Tom

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The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires

The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives

Disability Rights and Wrongs

Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Exploring Disability

Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction

Disability: The Basics

Disability: The Basics

Awkward Beauty: The Art of Lucy Jones