Emerging from the internationally recognised Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conference series, the chapters in this book offer wide-ranging critiques of th

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ’the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersect

Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prej

Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childh

This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience