How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England
Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability
Finds and investigates the resonances between autistic speech patterns and literary texts
Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability
Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone
An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?
Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present