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Disabling
Barriers, Enabling Environments (April 10, 2004)
by John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes, Carol Thomas
'This has been a ground-breaking book…and I whole-heartedly welcome a new edition'-
Professor Len Barton, School of Education, The University of Sheffield
'It is a really well-structured book which has been very popular and widely used by
students…Its great qualities are accessibility and diversity of contributors' -
Jenny Corbett, Institute of Education, University of London
'This book would be a valuable resource to students of disability studies and to health
and social care staff and other professionals who work with disabled people'- Disability
and Rehabilitation
The Second Edition of this landmark text has been revised to provide an up-to-date
accessible introductory text to the field of disability studies. In addition to analysing
the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment,
the revised edition has new chapters on:
· international issues
· diversity among disabled people
· sexuality
· bioethics.
Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45
short and engaging chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to
disability issues.
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments is an invaluable resource for both students and
practitioners alike. It is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking
courses in disability studies, as well as disability courses in social work, education,
health studies, sociology and social policy. |
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Disability
Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970-1999 - Sharon N. Barnartt, Richard Scotch -
November 1, 2001
Perhaps the photographs are the most interesting part of this book, because they
communicate the human experience of the disability rights protests from 1970 through 1999.
One of this reviewer's favorites is the image of activists at the Wheel of Justice March
and Demonstration in 1990 climbing the 83 marble steps of the US Capitol, trailing their
crutches or scooting up backward on their seats while out of their wheelchairs. The text
is accessible, but primarily of interest to those who enjoy number crunching something as
elusive as protest movements. Sociologists Barnartt (Gallaudet Univ.) and Scotch (Univ. of
Texas at Dallas) note that the statistics do not support the notion that disability
protests were as widespread as media coverage might suggest, but the statistics do help
readers grasp the complexity of this new minority group, “people with
disabilities.” That is, cross-disability protests occurred only 28 percent of the
time. Some protests arose out of separate cultural histories for particular disabilities.
For example, the National Federation of the Blind led protests against the National
Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped. This is an
excellent book for graduate students in political science, history, sociology, and
disability studies.
- P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo
Sharon Barnartt is Professor of Sociology at Gallaudet University.
Richard Scotch is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at the University
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