This book offers a critical yet constructive analysis of the ways in which those using social care and health services have been engaged in these services. It examines how different forms of collaboration, participation and involvement have contributed towards both service development and to the expansion of participant groupings and movements.

Feminist Perspectives on Disability provides a unique introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. The author considers contemporary similarities, differences and contentious areas and how concepts drawn from postmodern feminism can be usefully applied to the disability arena.
The book explores many important aspects of the field, including: biological debates; issues of power, knowledge, equality, difference, subjectivity and the body; interface of public and private/care and community; medical and social barriers; politics, citizenship and identity....