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  • Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies

    Edited by Joel Michael Reynolds, Mercer E. Gary ...
    Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. It takes up such contributions with the aim of charting a path forward for clinicians, bioethicists, public health experts, and anyone involved in emergency planning to better care for disabled people—and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Great Debates in Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education

    Edited by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri, Subini A. Annamma ...
    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today’s most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and the school-to-prison ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Disability and Social Change

    A Progressive Canadian Approach

    by Jeanette Robertson ...
    This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work, human services, child and youth care and disability studies. Chapters include first-person accounts ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

    A Guide for Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth and Families

    Edited by Emily S. Fisher, Karen Komosa-Hawkins ...
    The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues facing school professionals today, and its success has lasting, positive effects on the entire student body. Drawing on the expertise of researchers and practitioners, Creating Safe and Supportive ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Seeing Red

    HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada

    Edited by Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini, Marilou Gagnon ...
    What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who look ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with HIV/AIDS and Canadian society.In ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Inherited Inequality

    Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

    by Christina J. Cross ...
    A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s controversial 1965 report on “The Negro Family,” the disadvantages of the single-parent household have been at the center of debates about racial inequality in the United States. In ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • How to QuantCrit

    Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education

    by Wendy Castillo, Kamden K. Strunk ...
    How to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an iterative praxis to explore a range of questions that prompt practitioners and stakeholders to be engaged critics in working towards a more just and ... Read more

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  • Disability Politics and Theory, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by A.J. Withers, Rachel da Silveira Gorman ...
    Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and politics: eugenics, medicalization, rehabilitation, charity, rights and social and disability justice. A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The End of Stigma?

    Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

    by Gill Green ...
    This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent. But if ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Late-Life Homelessness

    Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging

    by Amanda Grenier ...
    Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness ... Read more

    $35.99 USD