The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social sciences, and disability has come to play an increasingly prominent role in political debates. The new edition t...(展开全部)

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportatio...(展开全部)

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 think...(展开全部)

Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages. If offers a unique approach to understanding disabling soc...(展开全部)

Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is a comprehensive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore how disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media. Starting from the premise that d...(展开全部)

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for ...(展开全部)

编辑推荐： ﹡我认识一个人，他戒烟戒酒戒色戒美食，一直到自杀那天，他的身体都挺健康的。 ——《酒精粗话和荷尔蒙：嗜好心理学》 ﹡《怪癖心理学》姊妹篇，荣膺搞笑诺贝尔奖 ﹡版权卖出罗马尼亚、韩国、日本、意大利、台湾等15个国家地区 ﹡作者是英国心理学会董事，国际宿醉研究协会创始人，作者之前因为研究骂脏话的好处得到来自世界各地媒体的瞩目。 ﹡超好玩的心理学实验书，内容涉及性、上瘾、脏话、醉酒、宿醉、爱情、死亡等许多精彩的项目。这本书会从此改变你对于“坏”的看法！ 听说性行为能缓解压力？一口闷掉威士忌，能让你在社交上变得开朗活泼、长袖善舞？满口脏话、“操”声不绝，能极大地缓解疼痛？这是真的吗？ 本书将带着你游览心理学世界的“法外之境”。它不怎么像一脸严肃的正经科普读物，倒更像是茶余饭后的闲聊谈资。它涉及了方方面面的人类体验 ——从生到死，从性行为到...(展开全部)

编辑推荐： ﹡我认识一个人，他戒烟戒酒戒色戒美食，一直到自杀那天，他的身体都挺健康的。 ——《酒精粗话和荷尔蒙：嗜好心理学》 ﹡《怪癖心理学》姊妹篇，荣膺搞笑诺贝尔奖 ﹡版权卖出罗马尼亚、韩国、日本、意大利、台湾等15个国家地区 ﹡作者是英国心理学会董事，国际宿醉研究协会创始人，作者之前因为研究骂脏话的好处得到来自世界各地媒体的瞩目。 ﹡超好玩的心理学实验书，内容涉及性、上瘾、脏话、醉酒、宿醉、爱情、死亡等许多精彩的项目。这本书会从此改变你对于“坏”的看法！ 听说性行为能缓解压力？一口闷掉威士忌，能让你在社交上变得开朗活泼、长袖善舞？满口脏话、“操”声不绝，能极大地缓解疼痛？这是真的吗？ 本书将带着你游览心理学世界的“法外之境”。它不怎么像一脸严肃的正经科普读物，倒更像是茶余饭后的闲聊谈资。它涉及了方方面面的人类体验 ——从生到死，从性行为到...(展开全部)

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, "Frontiers of Justice" is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent proble...(展开全部)

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against 'ableist' discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term 'normal' as these matured in Western Europe and the Unit...(展开全部)