Disability Politics and Care

Jay Dolmage, author of Disability Rhetoric:
Disability Politics and Care is at once very accessible in scope, yet unflinching in applying analysis across locations and commitments. It exposes the creative, resistant, politicized efforts of people with disabilities to redefine their roles, refusing to zoom out from, or to decentre, their experience. This is the book on Canadian disability movements.

Catherine Frazee, Professor Emerita, Ryerson University, Disability Studies:
It’s all here. The tensions and contradictions, the fissures of solidarity, the elegant choreography, the unspoken beauty. Enter this intricate weaving of scholarship, policy, and experience, and reconsider the nuanced relations of giving and receiving intimate human support. In her lucid and meticulous book, Christine Kelly reveals how independent living is “done.” Disability Politics and Care gives us what we need to revalue – and liberate – care.