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I myself had actually been thinking about disability and epistemology before I looked at a bookstore, but like Alexa find no disability-epistemology related articles in feminism or phenomenology. preceding feminist or phenomenological methods can't just be "mapped" that is adopted - but not adapted to suit disability needs, I take a more careful examination is needed. The only work that might be useful that I find was the hermeutical work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his ideas of "Situatedness" and "Horizon" in Truth and Method, a book that was originally meant for aesthetics but has find its way into social sciences and philosophy. For Gadamer we are all context bound by our "situationess" - that is what we are and when we are it e.g I am a Philosophy student, disabled, male, living in Britain in 1999. That is my Situation. I only have a certain view a, certain "Horizon" because I am bound by my situation by talking with others I could "fuse horizons" and perhaps have a wider undertsanding/interpretation or the world - have multiple networks of horizons. This idea, very badly sketched out here could be applied to the disability sitution but may not be very impressive. I would be very interesting in Alison Cocks' work and the views of others. Forgive the long e-mail. Michael %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%