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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Tom Shakespeare

Kath Gillespie-Sells

Dominic Davies

Social Sciences

Cassell

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.

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: <ul>
<li>dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people </li> <li>identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics </li> <li>bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies </li> <li>care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. </li>
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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

Taylor&Francis

Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome

Debating the rise of genetics in today's medical world, this study examines the values and practices that continue to shape the field of genetics. It argues that genetics as a whole is neither immune to nor ruined by the practice of eugenics, the scientific improvement of hereditary qualities. In contrast, it presents the hypothesis that genetics must be understood within the complex social and cultural processes that continue to shape it. While genetic technology may undermine an individual's freedom, that does not discount its merit. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of listening to women and disabled citizens, as they will be directly affected by the new genetic technologies.

Anne Kerr

Sociology

New Clarion Press

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