What Is Disability Studies?

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Disability rights is to disability studies as feminism is to women's studies. It's fundamentally interdisciplinary: it's literature and philosophy and law and ethics and medicine and bioengineering and pyschology and physical therapy and poetry and societal development. It's a field of thought where the people with disabilities are the subjects, thinking our own ways forward instead of the objects, under study by the experts.

And lots of interesting reading is available online for free!

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Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal

Volume 7, Issue 1 -- Copyright 2011

Table of Contents

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The Intersection of Gender and Disability: An International Perspective

Women with Disabilities Living in Poverty: The Case of Uruguay

María José Bagnato, María del Carmen Abreu, Adriana Suárez, Cecilia Durán, Beatriz Falero, Delia Bianchi, Mario Luzardo, & Paola Premuda Conti, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Gender, Disability, and ADA Title I Employment Discrimination: A Comparison of Male and Female Charging Party Characteristics

Amy Armstrong, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA
Lynn C. Koch, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas USA
Allen N. Lewis, Jessica E. Hurley, Pamela H. Lewis, & Brian T. McMahon, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA

Psychosocial Adjustment of Women with Work-related Disabilities in Rural China
Karen Y. L. Lo-Hui, Hong Kong Workers’ Health Centre, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
Lilian Luo & Xiaoshan Yang, Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Centre, People’s Republic of China

Native Americans with Disabilities: A Comparison of Male and Female Eastern Tribal Members
Chung-Fan Ni, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon, USA
Felicia Wilkins-Turner, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Vocational Rehabilitation Research Program, Connecticut, USA
Diane E. Liebert, DLE Associates, Massachusetts, USA
Valerie Ellien, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Vocational Rehabilitation Research Program, Connecticut, USA
Corrine Harrington, Ph.D., Bugbee Elementary School, Connecticut, USA

A Comparison of Male and Female Title I ADA Discrimination Allegations in Relation to Employer Characteristics
Lynn C. Koch, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas USA
Amy Armstrong, Allen N. Lewis, Jessica E. Hurley, Pamela H. Lewis, Brian T. McMahon Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA


Book and Media Reviews

Blind Man’s Bluff
Reviewed by Beth Omansky

The Professional Helper: The Fundamentals of Being a Helping Professional
Reviewed by Mari Ono

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