Being a person with a disability is a complex identity that is welded to concepts that are
central to this book—opportunity, bias, and systemic disadvantage. The significance of the …

Perhaps the best opening line in disability studies comes from Georgina Kleege:“Writing this
book made me blind.” Following this honorable tradition, I begin my explication of disability …

During the 1980s, women with disabilities began articulating their experiences and
concerns. Through personal narrative, scholarship, and activism, they sought to infuse …

One comes to disability studies for numerous reasons. No one account is the same. And one
person's narrative of engaging with disability studies can be told in many different ways; …

Over the past several decades, feminist and disability scholars and activists have
challenged our thinking about the causes and consequences of disability, impairment, and …

The title of the first book in this two-set edited collection is somewhat of a misnomer.
Arguably, the foundations of disability studies could be found in disability activism, but there …

In this essay, I offer tentative ruminations about the possibilities/challenges of theory and
praxis in the field of disability studies. I begin the essay by thinking through my own …

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 …

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose
works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new …

Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common
to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as …