title: The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives
author: Tom Shakespeare
description: This collection of articles explores the intellectual implications of a disability equality perspective. Topics include: the relevance of social theory; disabling architecture; feminist theory and the body; cultural representations; identity and interaction; and employment and education.
zlib_text: Understanding Disability Studies and
  Performance Studies
  This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together
  two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the
  past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings
  about such media as live performance art, photography, silent film, dance, personal
  narrative and theatre, using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory,
  gender, feminist, and masculinity studies, dance studies, as well as providing first
  publication of creative writings by award-winning poets and playwrights.
  This book was based on a special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly.
  Bruce Henderson is Professor of speech communication at Ithaca College, where he
  teaches courses in performance studies, disability studies, and health communication.
  Noam Ostrander is Assistant Professor of social work at DePaul University and past
  president of the Society for Disabilit