Disability Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() About Canada: Disability Rights |
Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and … | Deborah Stienstra | 134 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some … | Deborah Stienstra | 168 | 2020 | View |
![]() Breaking the Word BarrierStories of Adults Learning to Read |
In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are … | Angela Ranson; Marilyn Lerch | 128 | 2009 | View |
![]() Care WorkDreaming of Disability Justice |
In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 266 | 2018 | View |
![]() Crip KinshipThe Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid |
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to … | Shayda Kafai | 201 | 2021 | View |
![]() Disability and Social ChangeA Progressive Canadian Approach |
This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family … | Grant Larson; Jeanette Robertson | 2016 | View | |
![]() DisfiguredOn Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space |
A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what … | Amanda Leduc | 257 | 2020 | View |
![]() Doing Respectful ResearchPower, Privilege and Passion |
Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three … | Susan A. Tilley | 294 | 2016 | View |
![]() NEW! Making a HomeAssisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People |
In some Canadian provinces, people with severe physical disabilities are simply warehoused in nursing homes, where many people, especially in the age of homecare, are in the final stages of their … | Jen Powley | 136 | 2023 | View |
![]() Maternity RollsPregnancy, Childbirth and Disability |
Heather Kuttai is a 40-year-old white, heterosexual woman. She is married and is the mother of two children. Living in a quiet, middle-class neighbourhood, her life is, in many ways, seemingly … | Heather Kuttai | 143 | 2010 | View |
![]() Not A New ProblemViolence in the Lives of Disabled Women |
Diane Hiebert-Murphy; Janice Ristock; Michelle Owen | 228 | 2018 | View | |
![]() NEW! The Future is DisabledProphecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs |
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 334 | 2022 | View |
From ![]() Foreword by Patty BerneFrom: Crip Kinship |
Foreword by Patty Berne. | Shayda Kafai | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() Girl, InterruptedFrom: Maternity Rolls |
Heather Kuttai | 24 | 2010 | $2.40 Add | |
From ![]() IntroductionCatalyst for Writing This Book |
Susan A. Tilley | 22 | 2016 | $3.08 Add | |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Disfigured |
The introduction explores the author’s personal experiences with disability and how her love of nature made her turn to examine how disability is represented in fairy tales. | Amanda Leduc | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |