Why has 'the discursive turn' been sidelined in the development of a social theory of disability, and what has been the result of this? How might a social theor
Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterizatio
The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces th
This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes a