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Books and Articles

  • Albrecht, G. The disability business. Sage Library of Social Research, Vol. 190. Sage Publications.
  • Albrecht, Seelman, and Bury (eds.). (2001). Handbook of Disability Studies. Sage Publications.
  • Anaya, Rudolfo. (1979). Tortuga. U. of New Mexico Press.
  • Asch, A., & Fine, M. (eds.), (1988). Women with disabilities; essays in psychology, culture and politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Barnes, Oliver, & Barton (eds.). (2002). Disability studies today. Polity.
  • Barnes and Mercer. (2003). Disability. Polity.
  • Barton, L. (Ed.). (1996). Disability and society: emerging issues and insights. London: Longman.
  • Baynton, D. C. (1996). Forbidden signs: american culture and the campaign against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bauby, J. D. (1997). The diving bell and the butterfly. New York City: Knopf.
  • Belgrave, Faye. (1998). Psychosocial Aspects of chronic iIllness and disability among African Americans. Auburn House.
  • Black, Edwin. (2003). War against the weak: eugenics and America’s campaign to create a master race. Thunder Mouth Press.
  • Black, K. (1997). In the shadow of polio.
  • Bogdan, R. (1988). Freak show: Presenting human oddities for amusement and profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bowe, F. (1978). Handicapping America: barriers to disabled people. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Bowe, F. (1986). Changing the rules. T. J. Publishers.
  • Bower, E. M. (ed.). (1980). The handicapped in literature. Denver: Love Publishing.
  • Brickner, R. (1976). My second 20 years: An unexpected life.
  • Brody, H. (1987). Stories of sickness. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Brown, C., Collected poems.
  • Brown, C. My left foot
  • Brown, Steven. (2003). Movie stars and sensuous scars: essays on the journey from disability shame to disability pride. Universe, Inc.
  • Browne, S.E., Connors, D., & Stern, N. (eds.) (1985). With the power of each breath: A disabled women's- anthology. Pittsburgh.
  • Brownfield, V.A., & Raffo, S. (eds.). (1999). Restricted access: Lesbians on disability. Seattle: Seal Press.
  • Butler and Parr (eds.). (1999). Mind and Body Spaces: Geographics of Illness, Impairment, and Disability. Routledge.
  • Callahan, J. (1989). Don't worry, he won't get far on foot. New York.
  • Callahan, J. (1986). Do not disturb any further, New York: Quill William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1991). Digesting the child within and other cartoons to live by. New York: Quill William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1992). Do what he says! He's crazy!!! New York: Quill William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1993). I think I was an alcoholic . . . New York: Quill William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1993). The night, they say, was made for love plus my sexual scrapbook. New York: Quill, William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1994). The king of things and the cranberry clown. New York: William Morrow.
  • Callahan, J. (1994). What kind of god would allow a thing like this to happen?!! New York: Quill.
  • Callahan, J. (1995) Freaks of nature. New York City: William Morrow.
  • Callahan. J. (1998). Will the real John Callahan please stand up? A quasi memoir. Wm. Morrow & Co.
  • Charlton, J.I. (1998). Nothing about Us without us: disability oppression and empowerment, University of California Press.
  • Cohen, L. H. (1994). Train go sorry; Inside a Deaf world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Clare, E. (1999). Exile and pride: disability, queerness, and lLiberation. South End Press.
  • Corker and French, eds. (1999). Disability discourse. Open University Press.
  • Corker & Shakespeare (eds.). (2002). Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory. Continuum.
  • Couser, G. T. (1980). Recovering bodies: Illness, disability, and lifewriting. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Crutchfield, S., & Epstein. M. (eds.). (2000). Points of contact: disability, art, and culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Davis, F. (1963). Passage through crisis: polio victims and their families. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
  • Davis, L. J. (1995). Enforcing normalcy: disability, deafness, and the body. New York: Verso.
  • Davis, Lennard. (2002). Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism & Other Difficult Positions. New York University Press.
  • Davis, Lennard. (1997). The Disability Studies Reader. Routledge.
  • Deegan, M. J., & Brooks, N. A. (eds.) (1985). Women and disability: The double handicap, Transaction Books.
  • DeJong, G., Batavia, A.I., & Griss, R. (1989). America's neglected health minority: working-age persons with disabilities. The Milbank Quarterly, 67(2,2), 311-351.
  • Derrida, J. (1993). Memoirs of the blind: The self-portrait and other ruins. Translated by P.A. Brault & M. Naas. Chicago.
  • Disability and History (Radical History Review)
  • Donley, C., & Buckley, S. (eds.) (1996). The tyranny of the normal: An anthology. Kent State University Press.
  • Driedger, D. (1989). The last civil rights movement. St. Martins Press.
  • Drimmer, F. (1988). Born different: Amazing stories of very special people. New York: Atheneum.
  • Dubus, A. (1991). Broken vessels. Boston: David R. Godine.
  • Dunn, Katherine. (1983). Geek Love. Vintage Books.
  • Dykewomon, E. (ed.) Sinister wisdom # 36; Surviving psychiatric assault and creating emotional well-being in our communities. Berkeley, CA: POB 3252, Berkeley, CA 94703
  • Edwards, M. L. (1985). Physical disability in the ancient Greece. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
  • Engel and Munger. (2003). Rights of inclusion: law and identity in the life stories of Americans with disabilities. University of Chicago Press.
  • Fadiman, Anne. (2002). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
  • Finger, A. (1988). Basic skills, University of Missouri Press.
  • Finger, A. (1990). Past due; A story of disability, pregnancy and birth, Seal Press.
  • Finger, A. (1994). Bone truth. Coffee House Press.
  • Fielder, L. (1993). Freaks: Myths and images of the secret self. Anchor Books.
  • Fleischer and Zames. (2001). The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation. Temple University Press.
  • Forgotten crimes: The holocaust and people with disabilities. A report by Disability Rights Advocates, Inc. Oakland, CA: Disability Rights Advocates, 449 15th St., Ste. 303, Oakland, CA 94612.
  • Frank, A. W. The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Fries, K. (1996). Body remember: a memoir. Penguin Books.
  • Fries, K. (ed.) (1997). Staring back: An anthology of writers with disabilities. Dutton.
  • Gallagher, H.G. (1985). FDR's splendid deception. Dodd, Mead.
  • Gallagher, H.G. (1994). By trust betrayed: Patients, physicians and the license to kill in the Third Reich. Vandamere Press.
  • Gallagher, H. G. (1998). Black bird fly away: disabled in an able-bodied world. Vandamere Press.
  • Gannon, J.R. (1989). The week the world heard Gallaudet. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
  • Garland, R. (1995). The eye of the beholder: deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world. Cornell University Press.
  • Garretson, M.D. (ed.) (1993). Deafness: 1993-2013; a deaf american monograph. Vol. 43. National Association of the Deaf.
  • Garretson, M.D. (ed.) (1994). Deafness: Life and culture. deaf american monograph. Vol. 44. National Association of the Deaf.
  • Gartner, A., & Joe, T. (eds.) (1986). Images of the disabled/disabling images. Praeger Publishers.
  • Gliedman, J., & Roth, W. (1982) The unexpected minority, handicapped children in America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Gleeson, B. (1999). Geographies of disability. Routledge.
  • Goffman, E. (1962). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Prentice-Hall.
  • Golan, L. (1995). Reading between the lips. Bonus Books.
  • Grealy, L. (1994). Autobiography of a face. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Groce, N. (1985). Everyone here spoke Sign Language: hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge, MA.
  • Hafferty, R., Hey, S.C., Kiger, G., & Pfeiffer, D. (eds.) (1991). Translating disability: At the individual, institutional and societal levels. Salem, OR: Society for Disability Studies.
  • Haj, F. (1970). Disability in antiquity. New York: Philosophical Library.
  • Hans & Patri (eds.). (2003). Women, disability, and identity. Sage Publications.
  • Heavey, D. (1992). The creatures that time forgot. Routledge.
  • Hegi, U. (1996). Stones from the river. Scribner.
  • Herrmann, D. (1998). Helen Keller: A life. Knopf.
  • Herndl, D.P. (1993). Invalid women: figuring illness in american fiction and culture, 1840-1940. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Hey, S.C., Kiger, G., & Seidel, J. (eds.) (1984). Social aspects of chronic illness, impairment and disability, Salem, OR: Willamette University.
  • Hillyer, B. (1993). Feminism and disability. University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Hockenberry, J. (1995). Moving violations: war zones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence. Hyperion.
  • Hull, J. Touching the rock: An experience of blindness.
  • Hull, J. (1997). On sight and insight: A journey into the world of blindness. Oneworld Publications.
  • Ingstad, B. & Whyte, S.R. (eds.) Disability and culture. University of California Press.
  • Irvin, Cass. (2004). Homebound. Temple University Press.
  • Johnson, Mary. (2003). Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights. Avocado Press.
  • Johnson, Harriet McBryde. (2005). Too Late to Die Young. Henry Holt and Company.
    Keller, H. (1908). The world I live in.
  • Keith, L. (ed.) (1996). What happened to you? writing by disabled women. New Press.
  • Kisor, H. (1997). Flight of the gin fizz. Basic Books.
  • Klein, B. S. (1998). Slow dance: A story of stroke, love, and disability. Page Mill Press.
  • Klobas, L. E. (1988). Disability drama in television and film. McFarland & Co.
  • Koestler, F.A. (1976). The unseen minority: A social history of blindness in the United States. David McKay.
  • Kriegel, L. (1997). Flying solo: remembering manhood, courage, and loss. Beacon.
  • Krieger, L. (2006). Backlast Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Kuusisto, S. (1997). Planet of the blind. Dial Press.
  • La Plante, E. Seized: temporal lobe epilepsy as a medical, historical and artistic phenomenon.
  • Lane, H. (1985). When the mind hears: A history of the Deaf. Vintage Books.
  • Lane, H. Mask of benevolence: disabling the Deaf community.
  • Leal-Idrogo, A., Gonzales-Calvo, J., & Krenz, V. (Eds.) Multicultural women: health, disability, and rehabilitation. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
  • Liachowitz, C.H. (1988). Disability as a social construct: legislative roots. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Lifton, R. J. (1986). The Nazi doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide. Basic Books.
  • Linton, S. (1998). Claiming disability: knowledge and identity. NY: New York University Press.
  • Linton, S. (2006). My Body Politic: A Memoir. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
  • Lippmann, T. (1977). The squire of Warm Springs: F.D.R. in Georgia, 1924-1945. Playboy Press.
  • Livesey, M. (2000). The missing world.
  • Longmore, P. (1985). The life of Randolph Bourne and the need for a history of disabled people. Reviews in American History, Dec., 581-587.
  • Longmore, P. (1985). Screening stereotypes: Images of disabled people. Social Policy, 16(1), 31-37.
  • Longmore, P. (1987). Elizabeth Bouvia, assisted suicide and social prejudice. Issues in Law and Medicine, 3(2), 141-168.
  • Longmore, P. (1987). Uncovering the hidden history of people with disabilities. Reviews in American History, Sept., 355-364.
  • Longmore, Paul. (2003). Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability. Temple University Press.
  • Lorde, A. (1980). Cancer journals.
  • Mairs, N. Carnal acts.
  • Mairs, N. (1994). Voice lessons. Beacon Press.
  • Mairs, N. (1997). Waist-high in the world: A life among the nondisabled.
  • Matthews, G. (1991). Voices from the shadows. Women's Educational Press.
  • Matthews, J. Mother's touch: The Tiffany Callo Story.
  • Mee, Charles L. (1999). A nearly normal life. Little, Brown and Co.
  • Merker, H. (1994). Listening. HarperCollins.
  • Michalko, Rod. (2002). The Difference That Disability Makes. Temple University Press.
  • Milam, L. W. (1993). CripZen. Mho & Mho Works.
  • Milam, L. W. (1984). The cripple liberation front marching band blues. Mho & Mho Works.
  • Miller, V. Despite this flesh: The disabled in stories and poems.
  • Milligan, M., & Magee, B. (1997). On blindness: letters between Bryan Magee and Martin Milligan. Oxford University Press.
  • Mitchell, D., & Snyder, S. (eds.) The body and physical difference: discourses of disability. UMP
  • Morris, J. (1991). Pride against prejudice: Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
  • Morris, J. (ed.). (1999). Encounters with strangers: feminism and disability. London: The Women's Press.
  • Murphy, R. (1990). The body silent. W.W. Norton.
  • Nagler, M. (1993). Perspectives on disability – 2nd Edition. Health Markets Research.
  • Nasar, S. (1998). A beautiful mind. Simon and Schuster.
  • National Association of the Deaf. (1997). Who speaks for the deaf community. National Association of the Deaf.
  • Nolan, C. Under the eye of the clock.
  • Norden, M.F. (1994). The cinema of isolation: a history of physical disability in the movies. Rutgers University Press.
  • O’Brien, Ruth. (2001). Crippled justice. University of Chicago Press.
  • O’Brien, Ruth, ed. (2004). Voices from the edge: narratives about the Americans With Disabilities Act. Oxford University Press.
  • Oliver, M. (1989). The politics of disablement. St. Martins Press.
  • Oliver, Michael. (1996). Understanding Disability. Palgrave.
  • Paden, C., & Humphreys, T. (1988). Deaf in America; voices from a culture. Harvard University Press.
  • Patchett, Ann. (2004). Truth and Beauty.
  • Pelka, F. (1997). The ABC-CLIO companion to the disability rights movement. ABC-CLIO, Inc.
  • Pernick, M. S. (1996). The black stork: Eugenics and the death of defective babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915. Oxford University Press.
  • Pfeiffer, D. (ed.) (1995). Media and disability bibliography project. Disability Studies Quarterly. 15(2), 55-68.
  • Pfeiffer, D., Hey, S.C., & Kiger, G. (eds.). (1993). The disability perspective: variations on a theme. Society for Disability Studies.
  • Phillips, W.R.F., & Rosenberg, J. (1980). The origins of modern treatment and education of physically handicapped children. Arno Press.
  • Preston, P. (1994). Mother father deaf: living between sound and silence. Harvard University Press.
  • Price, R. (1994). A whole new life. Atheneum Press.
  • Priestly, Mark. (2003). Disability: A Life Course Approach. Polity.
  • Rabin, D., Rabin, P.L., & Rabin, R. (1982). Compounding the ordeal of ALS: isolation from my fellow physicians. New England Journal of Medicine. April 1.
  • Raymo, C. Dork of Cork.
  • Ree, J. (2000). I see a voice: Deafness, language and senses-A philosophical history. Metropolitan Books.
  • Reeve, C. (1997). Still me. Random House.
  • Register, C. (1988). Living with chronic illness: days of patience and passion. The Free Press
  • Rich, A. Your native land, your life.
  • Roberts, T., Ervin, M., & Nussbaum, S. (eds.) (1989). Anti-social for the disabled. (Adult comic book with disabled heroes and black humor may be available from Barbara's Bookstore, Chicago, IL; several prior series of the comic book, one of which is titled "Anti-Social, a Helpless Anger Production"; availability is unknown)
  • Rogers, N. (1992). Dirt and disease: polio before FDR. Rutgers University Press.
  • Rothman, D., & Rothman, S. (1984). The Willowbrook wars.
  • Russell, M. (1997). Beyond ramps: disability at the end of the social contract. Common Courage Press.
  • Russo, H. (ed.) Disabled, female and proud. Exceptional Parent Press.
  • Sacks, O. (1989). Seeing voices: A journey into the world of the Deaf. Vintage Books.
  • Sacks, O. (1976). Awakenings. Vintage Books.
  • Sacks, O. (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other tales of wonder. Touchstone Books.
  • Sacks, O. (1995). An anthropologist on Mars; Seven paradoxical tales. Knopf.
  • Sacks, O. (1997). The island of the colorblind. Knopf.
  • Safilios-Rothschild, C. The sociology and social psychology of disability and rehabilitation. Random House.
  • Saramago, J. (1997). Blindness. Harcourt Brace & Co.
  • Sarton, M. (1992). After the stroke. W.W. Norton.
  • Saxton & Howe. (eds.). (1987). With wings: An anthology of literature by and about women with disabilities. The Feminist Press, City University of New York.
  • Schneider, D.M. (1947). The social dynamics of physical disability in Army Basic Training. Psychiatry, 10, 323-333.
  • Schuchman, J.S. (1988). Hollywood speaks: deafness and the film entertainment industry. University of Illinois Press.
  • Scotch, R. (1985). From good will to civil rights. Temple University Press.
  • Scott, R.A. (1969). The making of blind men: A study of adult socialization. Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Shakespeare, Tom (ed.). (1998). The Disability Reader: Social Sciences Perspectives. Contiuum.
  • Shaw, B. (ed.) (1994). The ragged edge: The disability rights experience from the pages of the first fifteen years of the Disability Rag. Louisville, KY: Advocado Press.
  • Shapiro, J.P. (1993). No pity: people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement. New York: Times Books.
  • Shaw, Barrett (ed). (1994). The Ragged Edge. Avocado Press.
  • Smith, Bonnie G. and Hutchison, Beth. Gendering disability. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.
  • Smith, J.D. (1985). Minds made feeble. Aspen, CO: Systems Corp.
  • Smith, M., & Hailer, B. (eds.) (1995). Media and Disability Bibliography Project. Disability Studies Quarterly, 15, 30-43.
  • Snyder, Sharon L., and Mitchell, David T., Cultural locations of disability. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
  • Snyder, Brueggeman, & Thomson (eds.). (2002). Disability studies: enabling the humanities. Modern Language Association.
  • Sontag, S. (1977). Illness as metaphor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Stewart, J. (1989). The body's memory. New York: St. Martin's.
  • Stiker, H.J. (1997). A History of Disability. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
  • Stone, D.A. (1984). The disabled state. Temple University Press.
  • Stone, K.G. (1997). Awakening to disability: nothing about us without us. Volcano Press.
  • Stroman, Duane F., The disability rights movement : from deinstitutionalization to self-determination. Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : University Press of America, c2003
  • Styron, W. (1992). Darkness visible. Random House.
  • Swaim, French, and Cameron. (2003). Controversial issues in a disabling society. Open University Press.
  • Switzer, Jacqueline. (2003). Disabled rights: American disability policy and the fight for equality. Georgetown University Press.
  • Tales from the cripped. Volume l, (1994). Mouth Magazine.
  • Thomson, R. (ed.), (1996). Freakery: cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body. New York University Press.
  • Thomson, R. (1997). Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. Columbia University Press.
  • Treanor, R.B. (1993). We Overcame: The story of civil rights for disabled people. Regal Direct Publishing.
  • Trent, J. W., Jr. (1994). Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States. University of California Press.
  • Tyor, P.L., & Bell, L.V. (1985). Caring for the retarded in America, a history, Westport, CT: 1985.
  • Umansky, L., & Longmore, P. (eds.). (2001). The new disability history. New York University Press.
  • Van Cleve, J., & Crouch, B. (1989). A place of their own: creating the Deaf community in America. Washington, D.C.
  • Vaughn Edwin. (1993). The Struggle of Blind People for Self-Determination. Charles Thomas Publishers.
  • Wade, C. M. (ed.) (1993). Range of motion: disability poetry, prose, art. Squeaky Wheels Press.
  • Wade, C.M. (ed.) Close to the truth. Squeaky Wheels Press, Box 448, Berkeley, CA 94701
  • Walker, Lou Ann. (1986). A Loss for Words. Harper & Row.
  • Wendell, S. (1996). Toward a feminist theory of disability. In Holmes, H., & Purdy, L.M. (eds.) (1996), Feminist perspectives in medical ethics. Routledge.
  • Wendell, S. (1996). The rejected body: feminist philosophical reflections on disability. Routledge.
  • West, P. (1995). A stroke of genius: illness and self-discovery. Viking.
  • West, T.G. (1991). In the mind's eye: visual thinkers, gifted people with learning difficulties, computer images, and ironies of creativity. Prometheus Books.
  • Williams, Do (1993). Nobody nowhere; The autobiography of an autistic.
  • Williams, D. (1994). Somebody somewhere: breaking free from the world of autism. Random House.
  • Willmuth, M.E. (ed.) Women with disabilities: Found voices.
  • Winzer, M. (1993). The history of special education. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
  • Wright, B. (1983). Physical disability: a psychosocial approach. Harper & Row.
  • Zola, I.K. (1982). Missing pieces: A chronicle of living with a disability. Temple University Press.
  • Irving Zola (ed). (1982). Ordinary Lives. Apple-Wood Books.