This powerful book presents a series of perspectives on the process of self-organisation of disabled people which has taken place over the last thirty years. The 1980s saw a transformation in our understanding of the nature of disability, and consequently the kinds of policies and services necessary to ensure the full economic and social integration of disabled people. At the heart of this transformation has been the rise in the number of organisations controlled and run by disabled people themselves. Through a series of interviews with disabled people who have been centrally involved in the rise of the disability movement, the authors present a new collective history which throws light on the politics of the 1980s, and offers insights into future political developments in the 1990s and on into the twenty-first century.

Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future

Education & Teaching

Oliver, Mike

Campbell, Jane

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

1996 Scholastic Guided Reading Program Level F / Reading Discovery -- Messages (P) by Jane Campbell / Illustrated by Monika Klenner ***ISBN-13: 9780439116657 ***Pages: 8

Messages

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Scholastic Educational

Cat Brushing

A rousing and original&nbsp;debut&nbsp;story&nbsp;collection that probes&nbsp;the erotic, emotional,&nbsp;and intellectual lives of elder women, CAT BRUSHING will be published in the author's 80th&nbsp;year.&nbsp;&nbsp; CAT BRUSHING,&nbsp;the provocative debut by Jane Campbell,&nbsp;vigorously explores the&nbsp;sensual worlds&nbsp;of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity,&nbsp;and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging. Written in spikey, incisive prose, this alluring cast of characters overcomes the notion that elder women's behavior must be in some way monitored&nbsp;and&nbsp;controlled.&nbsp;Susan falls in love with her beautiful young caregiver Miffy, and embarks on an intense emotional relationship within the confines of her nursing home. Linda seeks out her former lover, Malik, despite having left him years ago to return to her settled marriage to Bill. Daisy, who, by a curious stroke of fate, finds herself at the funeral of her former boyfriend, Tim, relives their early life together, his betrayal of her and the anguish of that time. Martha, mourning her small dog whom she believes has been killed by the home care staff, works out how to manage a robot designed to record her behavior, and get her revenge.&nbsp; And the narrator of the title story, "Cat Brushing," communes with her elegant, soft Siamese, reflecting on the sexual pleasures of her past. The timeless wisdom and dark wit of debut writer Jane Campbell inspires and challenges, shocks and comforts as she examines the inner&nbsp;lives of women who fight&nbsp;to lead the rest of their lives on their own terms.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

GROVE PRESS

Interpretations of Love

Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History

History & Criticism

Univ of Tennessee Pr

Mythic Black Fiction: Transformation Of History

Univ Tennessee Press

A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration.   Enter Jane Campbell’s new book, A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt’s fiction from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, published in the 1960s, to A Whistling Woman (2002).   The book begins with an overview of Byatt’s writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist’s work. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account of the novels and short stories traces Byatt’s literary development.   As well as exploring the ways in which Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment, Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author’s individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt’s intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.

A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination

British & Irish

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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