Help

by Tom Shakespeare

An exploration of the social relations of care, written from a disability studies perspective. Help challenges academics, professionals, and society as a whole to rethink the ways we support each other in the twenty-first century. Drawing on cultural representations, and interviews with users and workers, it is an original and provocative study of the colonising and disempowering effects of care.

The book draws on independent living and feminist ethidcof care perspective in order to provide an alternative approach to meeting need and achieving equality.

99 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000