Guides: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, &amp; Accessibility: Books

Books

Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada by Dustin Galer
Publication Date: 2018
"In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century."
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities by Terry Tibbetts, Martin Agran, Fredda Brown, Carolyn Hughes, Carol Quirk & Diane Ryndak
Publication Date: 2013
"What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today, and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan."
Inclusive Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities by Rhonda G. Craven
Publication Date: 2015
"Dedicated to the identification of international strategies to achieve this goal, Inclusive Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities presents examples of theory, research, policy, and practice that will advance our understanding of how best to educate and more generally structure educational environments to promote social justice and equity."
Childhood and Disability by Sarah Beazley & Val Williams
Publication Date: 2013
"Drawn from Disability & Society over the period 1997-2012, the twelve chapters in this book address a range of personal, cultural and institutional arenas in which challenges experienced by disabled children are played out."
Signifying Bodies by G. Thomas Couser
Publication Date: 2009
"Signifying Bodies shows that at the heart of the memoir phenomenon is our fascination with writing that focuses on what it means to live in, or be, an anomalous body---in other words, what it means to be disabled. Previous literary accounts of the disabled body have often portrayed it as a stable entity possibly signifying moral deviance or divine disfavor, but contemporary writers with disabilities are defining themselves and depicting their bodies in new ways."
Accessible America by Bess Williamson
Publication Date: 2019
"Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson's Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences."
Recovering Bodies by Thomas Couser
Publication Date: 1997
"This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability - and in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness and paralysis - challenging the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms."