DisabilityISBN: 978-0-7456-2509-6
Paperback
192 pages
December 2002, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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"In Disability, Barnes and Mercer raise the bar for any
future discussions of the social model of disability. Their
well-grounded work uses the social model to analyse the classic
questions of the definition, production, representation,
experience, stratification, exclusion, politics and globalization
of disability. This timely book is a must read for students,
scholars and activists."
Gary L. Albrecht, University of Illinois at
Chicago
"This book is essential reading for all disability studies
scholars. It is historically well-grounded and theoretically
rigorous, carefully exploring theories of disability, impairment
and the body. The nature of the social oppression experienced by
disabled people is analysed, and disability is located in relation
to gender, 'race' and social class. Like all good sociology, the
book is highly accessible and an excellent read."
Sheila Riddell, University of Glasgow