Disability Titles by Colin BarnesHi
I understand that Polity Press are offering an additional discount on two of
their recent titles as follows...
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From: Mac Thu Yen
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: Disability Titles by Colin Barnes
Dear list owner,
Blackwell Publishing would like to offer you and your listserv members a 20%
discount to Disability, by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, and Disability
Studies Today, edited by Colin Barnes, Len Barton, and Mike Oliver.
For more information and to order:
For Disability, please go to:
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745625088 and use the Discount Code:
EBAR03
For Disability Studies Today, please go to:
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745626564 and use the Discount Code:
EBAR03
or call Blackwell Publishing toll free at 1- 800-216-2522 for US, Canada and
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* This discount expires on June 30, 2003.
Disability
By Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer
In this new book, Barnes and Mercer provide a concise and accessible
introduction to the concept of disability. Drawing on a burgeoning
'disability studies' literature from around the world, and from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore the evolution of this concept
and offer a wide-ranging critique of established academic, policy and
professional orthodoxies. The book highlights disabled peoples' exclusion
and marginalization in key areas of social activity and participation across
different historical and cultural contexts, such as family life and
reproduction, education, employment, leisure, cultural imagery and politics.
The analysis concentrates on disability as a distinctive form of social
oppression similar to that experienced by women, minority ethnic and 'racial
' groups, and lesbians and gay men. Key issues addressed include: theorizing
disability; historical and comparative perspectives; experiencing impairment
and disability; professional and policy intervention in the lives of
disabled people; disability politics, social policy and citizenship; and
disability culture.
This will be essential reading for those studying sociology, social policy,
social work, health studies, disability studies, and those in the therapy
and nursing professions
December 2002
200 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 in
Hardback:
ISBN: 0745625088 $57.95, £45.00
With Discount, Only $46.36, £36.00
Paperback:
ISBN: 0745625096 £13.99, $22.95
With Discount, Only £11.19, $18.36
Disability Studies Today
Edited by Colin Barnes, Len Barton, and Mike Oliver
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the
general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and
researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly
expansive literature, from a variety of perspectives, including cultural
studies, development studies, geography, history, philosophy, social policy,
social psychology and sociology. Perhaps inevitably, given this heightened
interest, a number of important challenges and debates have emerged which
raise many significant questions for all those interested in this newly
emergent and increasingly important field. Disability Studies Today provides
an invaluable introduction to and an overview of these concerns and
controversies.
Although the field is increasingly interdisciplinary in nature, the emphasis
is primarily a sociological one since sociology continues to play a central
role in the development of disability studies. Whilst the focus is primarily
on theoretical innovation and advancement, the arguments presented in this
book have important political and policy implications for both disabled and
non-disabled people. Moreover, since disability studies, like ethnic, women'
s and gay and lesbian studies, has developed from a position of engagement
and activism rather than one of detachment, the articles in this volume
maintain this tradition. The book contains contributions from established
figures, as well as newcomers to the field. Topics covered include: the
history of the development of disability studies in Britain and America, key
ideas, issues and thinkers, the role of the body, divisions and hierarchies,
history, power and identity, work, politics and the disabled peoples';
movement, globalization, human rights, research and the role of the academy.
September 2002
288 pages; 6 x 9 in
Hardback:
ISBN: 0745626564 $62.95, £50.00
With Discount, Only $50.36, £40.00
Paperback:
ISBN: 0745626572 $27.95, £15.99
With Discount, Only $22.36, £12.79
Please feel free to forward to other colleagues who would find this
interesting.
Thank you,
Thu Yen Mac
Blackwell Publishing, Boston, MA - Oxford, UK
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