Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a dis

In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics er

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterizatio

Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and r

This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the s