Reviews

A History of Disability by Henri-Jacques Stiker, William Sayers

subdue_provide75's review against another edition

3.0

Poorly titled -- way more philosophical than a "History" lets on.

gabojaiko's review against another edition

4.0

In some ways I think this book preceded current ideas about disability- namely the calling for "we want our place, not a place that has been designated for us.". Stiker's discussion of inclusion- difference, assimilation, identity- are extremely useful (chapter 6), and the point of this chapter is made, because of it's difference from the chapters that precede it. The structure of the entire book contributes to the argument. It offers understandings and imagining of disability from the past, and questions our current (mainstream) formation of disability.