UW Library Guide | Disability Studies - UW College of Arts and Sciences

Kari Anderson - Reference Librarian

Room 123, Suzzallo Library Box 352900 (206) 685-2789 karia@uw.edu

Resource Guide:http://guides.lib.washington.edu/disabilitystudies

This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for researching disability studies.

Additional Listings

Albrecht, Gary L, Katherine Seelman, and Michael Bury [eds]. Handbook of Disability Studies. Sage Publications, 2001.
Barnes, Colin. Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction. Polity Press, 1999.
Charlton, James I. Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability, Oppression, and Empowerment. University of California Press, 1998.
Davis, Lennard J [ed]. The Disability Studies Reader. Routledge, 1997.
Fries, Kenny [ed]. Staring Back: The Disability Experience From the Inside Out. Plume, 1997.
Higgins, Paul C. Making Disability: Exploring the Social Transformation of Human Variation. C.C. Thomas, 1992.
Johnstone, David. An Introduction to Disability Studies. David Fulton Publications, 2001.
Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. New York University Press, 1998.
Longmore, Paul K. Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability. Temple University Press, 2003.
Shakespeare, Tom [ed]. The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives. Cassell Academic, 1998.
Shapiro, Joseph. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Times Books, 1993.
Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson [eds]. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Shaw, Barrett. Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag. Avocado Press, 1994.
O'Brien, Ruth Ann. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Oliver, Michael and Bob Sapey. Social Work with Disabled People. Macmillan, 1999.
Parens, Erik, and Adrienne Asch [eds]. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Schlesinger, Lynn and Diane E. Taub [eds]. Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology and Disability Studies. American Sociological Association, 2004.
Fleischer, Doris Zames. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation">The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation. Temple University Press, 2001.
Klages, Mary. Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Longmore, Paul K. and Lauri Umansky [eds]. The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York University Press, 2001.
Bérubé, Michael. Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child. Vintage Books, 1998.
Browne, Susan E., Deborah Conners, and Nanci Stern [eds]. With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology. Cleis Press, 1985.
Callahan, John. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot: The Autobiography of a Dangerous Man. Morrow, 1989.
Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. South End Press, 1999.
Crutchfield, Susan and Marcy Epstein [eds]. Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Davis, Lennard J. My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness. University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Finger, Anne. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth. Seal Press, 1990.
Guter, Bob and John R. Killacky [eds]. Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories. Routledge, 2003.
Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. Hyperion, 1996.
Kleege, Georgina. Sight Unseen. Yale University Press, 1999.
Kuusisto, Stephen. Planet of the Blind. Delta, 1998.
Mairs, Nancy. Carnal Acts: Essays. Harper-Collins, 1990.
Mairs, Nancy. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Beacon Press, 1996.
Murphy, Robert F. The Body Silent. H. Holt, 1987.
O'Brien, Ruth [ed]. Voices from the edge : narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Padden, Carol and Tom Humphreys. Deaf in America : Voices from a Culture. Harvard University Press, 1988.
Panzarino, Connie. The Me in the Mirror. Seal Press, 1994.
Saxton, Marcia and Florence Howe [eds]. With Wings: An Anthology of Literature By and About Women with Disabilities. Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 1987.
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press, 1996.
Zola, Irving [ed]. Ordinary Lives: Voices of Disability and Disease. Apple-wood Books, 1982.
Asch, Adrienne and Michelle Fine. [eds]. Women with Disabilities : Essays in Psychology, Policy, and Politics. Temple University Press, 1988.
Butler , Ruth and Hester Parr [eds]. Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Illness, Impairment, and Disability. Routledge, 1999.
Corker, Mairian. Deaf and Disabled, or Deafness Disabled? : Towards a Human Rights Perspective. Open University Press, 1998.
Davis, Lennard J. Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, And Other Difficult Positions. New York : New York University Press, 2002.
Deutsch, Helen and Felicity Nussbaum [eds]. Defects: Engendering the Modern Body (Corporealities, Discourses of Disability) University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Ingstad, Benedicte and Susan Reynolds Whyte [eds]. Disability and Culture. University of California Press, 1995.
Kittay, Eva Feder. Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency. New York : Routledge, 1999.
Kittay, Eva Feder and Ellen K. Feder [eds]. The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Mitchell, David T. and Sharon Snyder [eds]. The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability in the Humanities. University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Norden, Martin F. The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. Rutgers University Press, 1994.
O'Brien, Ruth. Bodies In Revolt : Gender, Disability, And A Workplace Ethic Of Care. New York : Routledge, 2005.
Priestley, Mark [ed]. Disability and the Life Course: Global Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract: A Warning From an Uppity Crip. Common Courage Press, 1998.
Smit, Christopher R. and Anthony Enns [eds]. Screening Disability : Essays on Cinema and Disability. University Press of America, 2001.
Thomas, Carol. Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability. Open University Press, 1999.
Tremain, Shelley [ed]. Foucault and the Government of Disability. University of Michigan Press , 2005.
Wendell, Susan. The Rejected Body: Feminist Reflections on Disability. Routledge, 1996.

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