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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£43.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781903335857 | ISBN 10: 190333585x
The handbook provides in-depth information and invaluable guidance on the benefits system and social care services. Full of tools and tactics to help you make a successful claim.  Your right to benefits: For anyone with an illness, ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551528915 | ISBN 10: 1551528916
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 not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781984858979 | ISBN 10: 1984858971
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place. “A candid, accessible cheat sheet ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788739566 | ISBN 10: 1788739566
The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights.  In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case Britain’s 12 million disabled ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910885017 | ISBN 10: 1910885010
What does the term “disability” mean today? For many it is a highly negative label that they do not accept. In recent years, it has become associated with unemployment and dependence on benefits. But how were people we now call disabled treated in ea ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781439909379 | ISBN 10: 1439909377
"I've known Harilyn Rousso as a powerful activist and gifted artist, but with this revelatory book, she becomes something even rarer: a storyteller who conveys her uniqueness and so helps us to discover our own. Don't Call Me Inspirational is irresis ... more
View book details£52.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780812245479 | ISBN 10: 0812245474
The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846273223 | ISBN 10: 1846273226
Every few months there's a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care syste ... more
View book details£30.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780333945674 | ISBN 10: 0333945670
Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nat ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843104155 | ISBN 10: 1843104156
This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that di ... more
View book details£23.95 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780472086269 | ISBN 10: 047208626x
The increasing numbers of scholars, policy-makers, and political activists who are concerned with questions of physical and cognitive disability will warmly welcome Henri-Jacques Stiker's book, the first to attempt to provide a framework for analyzin ... more
View book details£24.00 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780520224810 | ISBN 10: 0520224817
"Compelling reading. Charlton is a subtle thinker - he avoids painting his picture of oppression with simple broad strokes. Nothing About Us Without Us is the most expansive discussion of the disability-rights movement in a political, economic, and ... more
View book details£29.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853026522 | ISBN 10: 1853026522
Mark Priestley addresses the relationship between the politics of disability and community care policies. He argues that 'community care' contributes to the view of disabled people as dependent and different, thus reinforcing their social exclusion a ... more
View book details£41.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780415079990 | ISBN 10: 0415079993
Is disability a civil rights issue? This powerful book presents a series of perspectives on the process of self-organisation of disabled people which has taken place over the last thirty years. The 1980s saw a transformation in our understanding ... more
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