At the 2012 Modern Languages Association conference, President Michael Bérubé affirmed
his chosen theme of “access” by announcing at the Presidential Forum that disability studies …

The temporarily able-bodied, or TABs. That's what disability activists call those who are not
physically or mentally impaired. And they like to remind them that disability is a porous state; …

If late-twentieth-century disability studies was associated with establishing the factors that
led to the structural, economic and cultural exclusion of people with sensory, physical and …

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 …

Disability studies is one of the most vibrant interdisciplinary fields in the academy today,
offering fresh and compelling insights into important and long-neglected aspects of social …

Critical disability studies as it has developed across the humanities, social sciences, the arts,
and educational studies in the United States is both a correction to and expansion of the way …

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's
introduction notes," the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five …

Despite being assailed for decades by disability activists and disability studies scholars
spanning the humanities and social sciences, the medical model of disability—which …

Presenting fully integrative text covering disability from a variety of disciplines This
innovative text first reviews existing theories, then sets forth a new viewpoint that …

Deborah Marks examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of
the work is not disabled people as' objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it …