Disability Studies

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Crip Authority

Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities engaged with consolatory literature to relate to their lived experiences

Light of the Everlasting Life

Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature

By Leah Pope Parker
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disability representations and the afterlife in Old English literature

By Touch Alone

Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture

By Vanessa Kay Warne
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How reading by touch challenged perceptions of blindness, what it means to be a reader

Rehabilitative Postsocialism

Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe

By Katerina Kolárová
Subjects: Disability Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The intersection of disability, race, and sexuality and the formation of social in/equalities in the postsocialist Czech Republic

Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Cripping Girlhood

By Anastasia Todd
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disabled girls’ complex roles in contemporary media culture

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Improvising Across Abilities

Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

Edited by Thomas Ciufo, Abbey L. Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Jennifer Hurst, IONE, Grace Shih-en Leu, Leaf Miller, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Nicola Oddy, Jesse Stewart, John Sullivan, Sherrie Tucker, Ellen Waterman, and Ranita Wilks
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

An exploration of the instrument that allows everyone to access artistic practice

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

Ohio under COVID

Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis

Edited by Katherine Sorrels, Lora Arduser, Danielle Bessett, Vanessa Carbonell, Michelle McGowan, and Edward Wallace
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Sociology, Disability Studies

The human story of Covid, from America's bellwether state

The Disabled Child

Memoirs of a Normal Future

By Amanda Apgar
Subjects: Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How "special needs" parental memoirs contribute to neoliberal and ableist ideologies

Blind in Early Modern Japan

Disability, Medicine, and Identity

By Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A history of the blind in Japan that challenges contemporary notions of disability

Cheap Talk

Disability and the Politics of Communication

By Joshua St. Pierre
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How speech has been made cheap to meet the inhuman appetites of capital

Translating Human Rights in Education

The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany

By Julia Biermann
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Education, Disability Studies

How the UN's right to inclusive education has resulted in school segregation for disabled students

Disability and Social Justice in Kenya

Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation

By Nina Berman & Rebecca Monteleone
Subjects: African Studies, Disability Studies

The first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By Jeremy Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen

Sex, Identity, Aesthetics

The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies

Edited by Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Yin Lie, and Cynthia Wu
Subjects: Disability Studies

How Tobin Siebers’ foundational work in disability studies resonates in the field today

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

Embodied Archive

Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production

By Susan Antebi
Subjects: Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disability and racial difference in Mexico’s early post-revolutionary period

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

A History of Disability

with a new foreword by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder

By Henri-Jacques Stiker
Subjects: Disability Studies, History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A bold analysis of the evolution of Western attitudes toward disability

A History of Disability

with a new foreword by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder

By Henri-Jacques Stiker
Subjects: Disability Studies, History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A bold analysis of the evolution of Western attitudes toward disability

Blindness Through the Looking Glass

The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body

By Gili Hammer
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

HandiLand

The Crippest Place on Earth

By Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Spotlights the heroes and heroines with disabilities in young people’s literature as it also imagines an ideal society for youngsters with disabilities

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

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