Disability Studies

Disability studies is a relatively new interdisciplinary academic field focusing on the roles of people with disabilities in history, literature, social policy, law, architecture, and other disciplines.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Self-Care for Autistic People
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
The Disability Studies Reader
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
A Disability History of the United States
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11)
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at them. When a tiny minority of them transgresses, their crimes of violence only confirm their abjection from the human [. . .] Anxiety, threat, dread, fear, and prejudice feed into the explanatory mechanisms that construct them as somehow beyond human, beyond mercy. ...more
Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

[The] excited, angry, upset, or calm choreography of fingers fluttering is simultaneously medicalized and moralized: re-encoded as '[an] odd or repetitive way of moving fingers.' The quiet play of a lone child in a busy playground is now seen as a pathological sign pointing not to personal choice or preference or even to social exclusion but to (medical/moral) deviance. ...more
Anne McGuire, War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

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