March 25, 2015
Sociologist Tom Shakespeare of the University of Norwich Medical School recently did a five-part series on “The Genius of Disability” for BBC Radio 3, with the first radio essay in the series… READ MORE
August 5, 2014
Heather Laine Talley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. Her new book, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance, examines the cultural meaning of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined… READ MORE
October 21, 2013
—Ruth Colker Blaming the mother is a long-standing cultural tradition in the United States. In the best-selling book, The Generation of Vipers, Philip Wylie invented the name “momism” in 1942… READ MORE
June 26, 2013
—Ruth Colker Raised in a Spanish-speaking household, Peter learned to speak English at age two while recuperating from a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite… READ MORE
August 13, 2010
NYU Press is saddened by the passing of Dr. Paul Longmore, a pioneering scholar and advocate in the disability rights community. Dr. Longmore was the co-editor of an NYU Press… READ MORE
January 28, 2009
The New York Times City Section did a brief Q&A with Susan Schweik, the author of the forthcoming Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (NYU Press 2009 / History of Disability… READ MORE
December 5, 2008
Macleans did an excellent write up about the issues raised in After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU 2008) by Emily Abel and Saskia Subramanian …. READ MORE