01092nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001653001100042653002300053653001500076653001600091100002200107245007900129856006800208050002500276520063300301       2014                            d10aTheory10aEmperical research10aDisability10abook review1 aGarland-Thomson R00aBook review: Disability and social theory: New developments and directions  uhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09687599.2013.875260  aGARLAND-THOMSON 20143 aThis collection of essays, appropriately dedicated to the memory of disability activist and theorist Vic Finkelstein, ambitiously draws together 16 chapters written by a wide range of scholarly researchers and theorists in the social sciences to address the topic of disability and social theory. The volume ranges across the topics of  ‘Cultures,’ ‘Bodies,’ ‘Subjectivities,’ and ‘Communities’ and is bookended by a useful introduction and conclusion written by the three co-editors. The utility of the volume as a reference guide or textbook is set off by a capacious glossary 
with expansively defined terms.