Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: From Activism to Academia
	1 A Critical Condition
	2 Independent Living and the Medical Model of Disability
	3 Emancipating Disability Studies
PART TWO: The Developing Discipline
	4 Sociology, Disability Studies and Education: Some Observations
	5 The Social Model of Disability: A Sociological Phenomenon Ignored by Sociologists?
	6 The Spectre at the Feast: Disabled People and Social Theory
	7 The Best Burgers? The Person with Learning Difficulties as Worker
	8 Researching a Disabling Society: The Case of Employment and New Technology
	9 Oppression, Disability and Access in the Built Environment
	10 Enabling Identity: Disability, Self and Citizenship
	11 Body Battles: Bodies, Gender and Disability
	12 Understanding Cinematic Representations of Disability
PART THREE: Debates and Dialogues
	13 Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement
	14 Still out in the Cold: People with Learning Difficulties and the Social Model of Disability
	15 Disability Discourse in a Postmodern World
	16 The Sociology of Disability: Towards a Materialist Phenomenology
	17 Activists and Academics: Part of the Same or a World Apart?
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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