Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, this work frames the author's examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers.
Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.Based on the accounts of seven disabled individuals who were sexually ......
Disability and Academic Exclusion employs disability theory to reveal cultural limitations to minority incorporation in education, historically demonstrated by the diminished reinscriptions of iconic minority authenticity in the works of former slaves Sojourner Truth and Phillis Wheatley and the deaf-blind author Helen Keller.
Examines the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. The book provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas.
What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and public policies affect those experiencing disability? This book provides an introduction to the wealth of social, political, and ethical debates that surround the disabled.
Challenges for Social Insurance, Health Care Financing, and Labor Market
Presents a cross-cutting assessment of disability income policy in public and private programs in the US and in European countries. It evaluates whether there is a crisis in disability benefit policy, drawing on an in-depth review of Social Security disability programs by a panel of national experts.
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Color Line maintains that the Black literary ......
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Color Line maintains that the Black literary ......
The subject of the book is about attitudes and reactions to different kinds of disabilities as well as remediation policies in Nigeria. It covers a number of areas including disabilities studies, education and philosophy of education.
