The rise of the disability rights movement in the latter half of the twentieth century was a
political and theoretical advance. Activists and scholars developed new ways of thinking …

The vast majority of people with disabilities have always been poor, powerless, and
degraded. Disability oppression is a product of both the past and the present. Some aspects …

Traditional accounts of disability have focused on deficits of body or mind. Disabled people
have been defined in terms of their impairments. In different historical and cultural contexts …

Disability theory has had a major impact on the lives of many disabled people in western
capitalist societies. By providing an alternative explanation for their oppression to that …

Theorising disability lies at the heart of many recent social scientific engagements with the
body, subjectivity, culture and society. Disability studies have developed across, through …

The concept of disability is used across a variety of contexts to describe different
phenomena and prescribe distinct behaviors or norms. The definitional challenge is not only …

This chapter focuses on the ontology of disability, ethics and the moral significance of
disability and, finally, political philosophy and its implications for disabled people's social …

People with disabilities in Canada experience and inhabit a system of deep structural,
economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality–a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite …

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 …