Disability Studies


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Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine, eds., Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture and Politics (1988).

Douglas Baynton, Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language (1996).

Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (1990).

Brenda Brueggemann, Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (1999).

Sheryl Buckley and Carol Donley, eds., "Introduction," The Tyranny of the Normal (1996).

Sally Chivers, From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives (2003).

Mairian Corker, Deaf and Disabled, or Deafness Disabled?: Towards a Human Rights Perspective (1998).

Thomas Couser, Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997).

Michael Davidson, "Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9 (2003).

Lennard Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body (1995).

Leslie Fiedler, Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self (1978).

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (1997).

Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963).

Harlan Lane, When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf (1984).

Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (1998).

Paul Longmore, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (2003).

Nicole Markotić, "Coincidence of the Page," Tessera 27 (1999).

Robert McRuer, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs and Queerness and Disability (2006).

David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, "Introduction: Disability Studies and the Double Bind of Representation," The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997).

David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2000).

Martin Norden, Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies (1994).

Mark Priestley, Disability Politics and Community Care (1999).

Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (1977).

Tanya Titchkosky, Disability, Self, and Society (2003).

Shelley Tremain, Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture (1996).

Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability (1996).