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The Past Replayed: Kirby Hall [VHS] … |
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Best of Both Worlds [VHS] … |
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Deaf Mosaic’s Deaf Way Part II Videotape: Opening Day Performance [VHS] $39.95 … |
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The Other Sister $3.67 In this sensitive comedy/drama directed by Garry Marshall, Juliette Lewis is a mentally retarded young woman who returns to parents Diane Keaton and Tom Skerritt after spending 10 years in an institution. While attending a vocational college, Lewis meets Giovanni Ribisi, an emotionally handicapped student. The two become involved romantically, which causes problems with Lewis’ parents. 130 min. Wi… |
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NOVA: Dying to Be Thin $9.87 Why are Americans–and young women in particular–so obsessed with being thin? What drives a person to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia? This straightforward documentary from “Nova” examines the nation’s overwhelming infatuation with body image, exploring the ways in which unrealistic expectations can endanger women’s health and allowing survivors of eating disorders to share their ow… |
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Disability $24.19 For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as ‘victims’ of their condition and a ‘burden’ on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their organizations across Europe and North America have challenged conventional explanations for their individual and collective disadvantage, calling for policy measures to change the image and status of disabled people in the Western world. In this new book, Barnes and Mercer provide a concise and accessible introduction to the concept of disability. Drawing on a burgeoning ‘disability studies’ literature from around the world, and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore the evolution of this concept and offer a wide-ranging critique of established academic, policy and professional orthodoxies. The book highlights disabled peoples’ exclusion and marginalization in key areas of social activity and participation across different historical and cultural contexts, such as family life and reproduction, education, employment, leisure, cultural imagery and politics. The analysis concentrates on disability as a distinctive form of social oppression similar to that experienced by women, minority ethnic and ‘racial’ groups, and lesbians and gay men. Key issues addressed include: theorizing disability; historical and comparative perspectives; experiencing impairment and disability; professional and policy intervention in the lives of disabled people; disability politics, social policy and citizenship; and disability culture. This will be essential reading for those studying sociology, social policy, social work, health studies, disability studies, and those in the therapy and nursing professions. |
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Researching Disability Issues $37.75 This book is designed to meet a growing need for clear illustrations of how to carry out research which seeks to explore disability issues. It aims to demonstrate the value of a critical attention to social, rather than medical starting points for researching disability, through reviewing a variety of studies which look at different aspects of disabled people’s lives. Different methodological approaches and research techniques are considered ranging from analysis of observation data concerning disabled children in schools to rich conversation based data which focuses on family life. A central theme concerns the pivotal role of disabled people in research. The book provides substantive examples of the dilemmas which face researchers and connects these to ideas for individual personal action. Disabled and non-disabled researchers, professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines will find the presentation of both research findings and debates informative and of interest. |
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Disability Classification in Education: Issues and Perspectives $39.45 This edited volume examines current disability classification systems, the dilemmas educators face in categorizing students with special needs, and alternative options based on recent challenges and trends. |
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Disability Theory $30.96 ""Disability Theory" is just the book we’ve been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the ‘social model’ of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy—they’re all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays. "Disability Theory" is a field-defining book: and if you’re curious about what ‘disability’ has to do with ‘theory, ‘ it’s just the book you’ve been waiting for, too." —Michael Berube, Pennsylvania State University ""Disability Theory" is magisterially written, thoroughly researched, and polemically powerful. It will be controversial in a number of areas and will probably ruffle feathers both in disability studies as well as in realms of cultural theory. And that’s all to the good." —Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego "Not only is "Disability Theory" a groundbreaking contribution to disability studies, it is also a bold, ambitious and much needed revision to a number of adjacent and overlapping fields including cultural studies, literary theory, queer theory, and critical race studies. Siebers has written a powerful manifesto that calls theory to account and forces readers to think beyond our comfort zones." —Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, "Disability Theory" revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argues that disability studies transfigures basic assumptions about identity, ideology, language, politics, social oppression, and the body. At the same time, he advances the emerging field of disability studies by putting its core issues into contact with signal thinkers in cultural studies, literary theory, queer theory, gender studies, and critical race theory. Tobin Siebers is V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. A volume in the series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Illustration: Pattern by Riva Lehrer, acrylic on panel, 18" X 24," 1995 |
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RESEARCHING DISABILITY ISSUES $82.88 No Synopsis Available |
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A History of Disability $33.72 The increasing numbers of scholars, policy-makers, and political activists who are concerned with questions of physical and cognitive disability will warmly welcome Henri-Jacques Stiker’s book, the first to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages. Published in 1997 in France as "Corps infirmes et societes" and available now in an excellent English translation, the book traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. In this volume, Stiker examines a fundamental issue in contemporary Western discourse on disability: the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society. He highlights the consequences of such a mindset, illustrating the intolerance of diversity and individualism that arises from placing such importance on equality. Importantly, Stiker does not hesitate to assert his own stance on the issues he discusses: that difference is not only acceptable, but that it is desirable, that it is necessary. The author goes beyond anecdotal history to traverse a little known history, penetrating to the heart of collective attitudes and reflecting on elements of policy. The sweep is broad; from a rereading and reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth to current legislation regarding disablity, he proposes an analytical history that demonstrates how societies reveal themselves through their attitudes towards disability, at times in unexpected ways, since the study of detail is often the best entry into the whole of a culture. The book will be of interest to scholars of disability, historians, social scientists, cultural anthropologists, and those who are intrigued by the role that culture plays in the development of language and thought surrounding the disabled. Henri-Jacques Stiker is Director of Research and member of the department of the History and Civilization of Western Societies, University of Paris VII. |
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Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity $45.57 Examines the theology issues used to understand disability (chiefly Down Syndrome) and the way in which disability changes our theological commitments. |
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