This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and
postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and …

In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on
the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important …

Pervasive representations of disability carry associations with the idea of loss. These have
been strongly rejected by the social model movement as stereotyping, which may …

Until fairly recently, the fields of disability studies and international development were
viewed as completely separate. Much of what we know about disability and contemporary …

Recent feminist critics of the social model of disability have pointed towards a danger that
disability studies may give relatively little attention to personal and emotional aspects of …

This paper presents contemporary cognitive approaches to the evolution of religious beliefs.
Arguments are put forward that different types of beliefs, or 'modes of religiosity', occur as a …

Little is known about how HIV/AIDS affects people with disabilities, although international
literature suggests that people with learning disabilities and other disabilities may be at …

Introduction: In the last two decades there has been an increase in the numbers of visually
impaired students accessing universities in South Africa. However, very few studies have …

Until recently disability studies has ignored questions regarding the psychological nature of
oppression. Proponents of the social model have viewed such concerns as diversionary …

I tmay surprise some readers that disability appears in this book. To many, disability is not an
issue associated with ideas such as discrimination or oppression, but a purely health-related …