Researching disability issues Book

	Series editor's preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	First principles	8
	The cultural backdrop	10
	The logic of essentialism	13
	The social agenda and the 'right' to self-definition	21
	The political agenda	25
2	Refocusing	33
	Refocusing	35
	The postmodernist agenda	40
	The logic of 'both-and' and cultural processes	44
	The systemic approach and simultaneous oppressions	47
3	Meaning what we say and saying what we mean	51
	In the sensory realm	53
	Discourse and the construction of identities	56
	The postsctructuralist agenda	58
	Discourse and power	62
	Cybernetic models and network metaphors	68
4	Books without pictures	74
	Perspectives on social justice	75
	Special needs and human rights	82
	A critique of language education	84
	Anti-oppressive environments and equal opportunities for learning	89
5	The power of well-being	95
	Deaf well-being	97
	The difference principle and cultures of care	99
	Value-added helping?	103
	The power of well-being	110
6	Running twice as fast	113
	The Disability Discrimination Act - legislating for change?	115
	The case for Genuine Occupational Qualification	118
	Organizational culture in context	121
	Access to misinformation	125
	The myth of the deaf role model	129
7	The time has come...	133
	Glossary	144
	References	150
	Index	160