Cultural Locations of Disability

In their book Cultural Locations of Disability they trace how disabled people came to be looked upon as biologically deviant. Using the eugenic period as a starting point they examine cultural spaces that have been developed exclusively on behalf of disabled people. Included in their understanding of cultural spaces are locations like the 19th century charity systems, institutions for the feebleminded (during the eugenics period), sheltered workshops for the ''multi-handicapped'', documentary film representations of disability and current academic trends in research on disability.