A Disability Studies Bibliography
This is a selected bibliography of resources on Disability Studies.
Ablon, J. (1984). Little people in America: The social dimensions of Dwarfism. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Adams, R. (2001). Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American cultural imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Albrecht, G. L. (1992). The disability business: Rehabilitation in America [Sage Library of Social Research Vol. 190]. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
Albrecht, G. L., Seelman, K. D., & Bury, M. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of disability studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Allard, M. A., Howard, A. M., Vorderer, L. E., & Wells, A. I. (1999). Ahead of his time: Selected speeches of Gunnar Dybwad. Washington, DC: American Association on Mental Retardation.
Barnartt, S., & Scotch, R. (2001). Disability protests: Contentious politics 1970-1999. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Barnes, C., & Mercer, G. (2003). Disability [Key Concepts]. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Barnes, C., Oliver, M., & Barton, L. (Eds.). (2002). Disability Studies today. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Baynton, D. C. (1996). Forbidden signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Becker, G. (1978). The mad genius controversy: A study in the sociology of deviance [Sociological Observations]. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Behuniak, S. M., & Svenson, A. G. (2003). Physician-assisted suicide: The anatomy of a constitutional law issue. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Berube, M. (1996). Life as we know it: A father, a family, and an exceptional child. New York: Random House.
Blanck, P., Hill, E., Siegal, C. D., & Waterstone, M. (2004). Disability civil rights law and policy [Hornbook Series]. St. Paul: Thomson West.
Bogdan, R. (1988). Freak show: Presenting human oddities for amusement and profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bogdan, R., & Taylor, S. J. (1994). The social meaning of mental retardation: Two life stories [Special Education Series]. New York: Teachers College Press.
Branson, J., & Miller, D. (2002). Damned for their difference: The cultural construction of Deaf people as disabled: A sociological history. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Braginsky, D. D., & Braginsky, B. M. (1971). Hansels and Gretels: Studies of children in institutions for the mentally retarded. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Breslin, M. L., & Yee, S. (Eds.). (2002). Disability rights law and policy: International and national perspectives. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers.
Brown, S. E. (2000). A celebration of diversity: An annotated bibliography about disability culture. Las Cruces, NM: Institute on Disability Culture.
Campbell, J., & Oliver, M. (1996). Disability politics: Understanding our past, changing our future. London and New York: Routledge.
Caudill, W. (1958). The psychiatric hospital as a small society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Charlton, J. I. (1998). Nothing about us without us: Disability oppression and empowerment. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Coles, G. (2003). Reading the naked truth: Literacy, legislation, and lies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Conrad, P. (1976). Identifying hyperactive children: The medicalization of deviant behavior. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Conrad, P., & Schneider, J. W. (1992). Deviance and medicalization: From badness to sickness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Corker, M., & Shakespeare, T. (Eds.). (2002). Disability/postmodernity: Embodying disability theory. New York: Continuum.
Davis, F. (1963). Passage through crisis: Polio victims and their families. New York: The Bobbs-M errill Company, Inc.
Davis, L. J. (Ed.). (1997). The Disability Studies reader. New York and London: Routledge.
Davis, L. J. (2002). Bending over backwards: Disability, dismodernism & other difficult positions [Cultural Front]. New York: NYU Press.
Deutsch, H., & Nussbaum, F. (Eds.). (2000). "Defects": Engendering the modern body [Corporealities: Discourses of Disability]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Dicker, S. (1990). Stepping stones: Successful advocacy for children. New York: Foundation for Child Development.
Douglas, J. D. (Ed.). (1972). Research on deviance. New York: Random House.
Dulberger, J. A. (1996). “Mother donit for the best”: Correspondence of a nineteenth-century orphan asylum. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Dwyer, E. (1987). Homes for the mad: Life inside two nineteenth-century asylums. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Dybwad, G. (1964). Challenges in mental retardation. New York and London: Columbia University Press.
Edgerton, R. B. (1993). The cloak of competence, revised and updated. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Eiesland, N. L. (1994). The disabled God: Toward a liberatory theology of disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Ellis, C. (1995). Final negotiations: A story of love, loss, and chronic illness [Health, Society, and Policy Series]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Evans, R. W. (2004). The social studies wars: What should we teach the children? New York: Teachers College Press.
Falk, G. (2001). Stigma: How we treat outsiders. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Farber, B. (1968). Mental retardation: Its social context and social consequences. New York: Houghton Miffin Company.
Ferguson, P. M., & Olson, D. (Eds.). (1989, April). Supported community life: Connecting policy to practice in disability research [Reports from the Consortium on Youth and Disability Policy]. Eugene, OR: Specialized Training Program, University of Oregon.
Fine, M., & Asch, A. (1988). Women with disabilities: Essays in psychology, culture, and politics [Health, Society, and Policy Series]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Finke, B. (2003). Long time, no see. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Fleischer, D. J., & Zames, F. (2001). The disability rights movement: From charity to confrontation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Frank, G. (2000). Venus on wheels: Two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America. Berkeley: University of California press.
Freeberg, E. (2001). The education of Laura Bridgman: First deaf and blind person to learn language. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Gallagher, D. J., Heshusius, L., Iano, R. P., & Skrtic, T. M. (2004). Challenging orthodoxy in special education: Dissenting voices. Denver: Love Publishing Company.
Gaventa, W. C., & Coulter, D. L. (Eds.). (2001). The theological voice of Wolf Wolfensberger. Binghamton: The Haworth Pastoral Press, Inc.
Gitlin, T. (1995). The twilight of common dreams: Why America is wracked by culture wars. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Goode, D. (1994). A world without words: The social construction of children born deaf and blind [Health, Society, and Policy Series]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York: Touchstone.
Groce, N. (1986, May). "The town fool": An oral history of a mentally retarded individual in small town society [Wenner-Gren Foundation Working Papers in Anthropology]. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Groce, N. (1985). Everyone here spoke sign language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Handler, L. (1998). Twitch and shout: A Touretter's tale. New York: Plume.
Henry, J. (1973). Pathways to madness. New York: Vintage Books.
Herr, S. S., Gostin, L. O., & Koh, H. H. (Eds.). (2003). The human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities: Different but equal. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Higgins, P. C. (1980). Outsiders in a hearing world: A sociology of deafness [Sociological Observations]. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Ingstad, B., & Whyte, S. R. (Eds.). (1995). Disability and culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Jacobs, J. (1971). Adolescent suicide [Wiley Series on Psychological Disorders]. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Jenkins, R. (Ed.). (1998). Questions of competence: Culture, classification and intellectual disability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Jodelet, D. (1991). Madness and social representations: Living with the mad in one French community [Medicine and Society Vol. 5]. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Johnson, M. (2003). Make them go away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & the case against disability rights. Louisville, KY: The Advocado Press.
Johnstone, D. (1998). An introduction to Disability Studies. London: David Fulton Publishers.
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. (2002). Civil rights and human dignity: Three decades of leadership in advocacy for people with mental disabilities. Washington, DC: Author.
Karp, D. A. (1996). Speaking of sadness: Depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Krieger, L.H. (2003). Backlash against the ADA: Reinterpreting disability rights [Corporealities: Discourses of Disability]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Lane, H. (1999). The mask of benevolence: Disabling the Deaf community (2nd ed.). San Diego: Dawn Sign Press.
Lantzy, M. L. (1992). Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: An annotated guide to its literature and resources, 1980-1991. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co.
Linneman, R D. (2001). Idiots: Stories about mindedness and mental retardation [Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education Vol. 154]. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Linton, S. (1998). Claiming disability: Knowledge and identity [Cultural Front]. New York: New York University Press.
Longmore, P. K. (2003). Why I burned my book and other essays on disability [American Subjects]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Longmore, P. K., & Umansky, L. (Eds.). (2001). The new disability history: American perspectives [The History of Disability]. New York: New York University Press.
Lyman, K. A. (1993). Day in, day out with Alzheimer's: Stress in caregiving relationships [Health, Society, and Policy Series]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Makas, E., & Schlesinger, L. (Eds.). (1996). End results and starting points: Expanding the field of Disability Studies. Portland, ME: The Society for Disability Studies & The Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs.
Minow, M. (1990). Making all the difference: Inclusion, exclusion, and American law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Mitchell, D. T., & Snyder, S. L. (Eds.). (1997). The body and physical difference: Discourses of disability [The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Murphy, R. F. (1987). The body silent: An anthropologist embarks on the most challenging journey of his life: Into the world of the disabled. London and New York: W.W. Norton.
Murphy, S. T., & Rogan, P. M. (1995). Closing the shop: Conversion from sheltered to integrated work. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publis hing Co.
Nagler, M. (Ed.). Perspectives on disability: Text and readings on disability. Palo Alto, CA: Health Markets Research.
Nyiszli, M. (1960). Auschwitz: A doctor's eyewitness account. New York: Arcade Publishing.
O'Brien, R. (2001). Crippled justice: The history of modern disability policy in the workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Olson, L. K. (2003). The not-so-golden years: Caregiving, the frail eldery, and the long-term care establishment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pelka, F. (1997). The ABC-CLIO companion to the disability rights movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Pernick, M. S. (1996). The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Pointon, A., & Davies, C. (Eds.). (1997). Framed: Interrogating disability in the media. London: British Film Institute.
Priestley, M. (2003). Disability: A life course approach. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Radical Teacher, No. 47: Disability studies [Feature issue]. (1995, Fall). Somerville, MA: Boston Women's Teachers' Group, Inc.
Ritzer, G. (1998). The McDonaldization thesis: Explorations and extensions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Robillard, A. B. (1999). Meaning of a disability: The lived experience of paralysis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Rogers, L. J., & Swadener, B. B. (Eds.). (2001). Semiotics & Dis/ability: Interrogating categories of difference. Albany: State University of New York press.
Roosens, E. (1979). Mental patients in town life: Geel--Europe's first therapeutic community [Sage Library of Social Research Vol. 90]. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Rosen, G. (1968). Madness in society: Chapters in the historical sociology of mental illness. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Roth, J. A., & Eddy, E. M. (1967). Rehabilitation for the unwanted. New York: Atherton Press.
Rothman, D. J., & Rothman, S. M. (1984). The Willowbrook wars: A decade of struggle for social justice. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
Russell, M. (1998). Beyond ramps: Disability at the end of the social contract. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
Ryan, D. F., & Schuchman, J. S. (Eds.). (2002). Deaf people in Hitler's Europe. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Ryan, W. (1976). Blaming the victim (Rev. ed.). New York: Vintage.
Sacks, O. (1990). Seeing voices: A journey into the world of the Deaf. New York: Harper Perennial.
Safford, P. L., & Safford, E. J. (1996). A history of childhood & disability. New York: Teachers College Press.
Sarason, S. B. (1996). Revisiting “The culture of the school and the problem of change” [The Series on School Reform]. New York: Teachers College Press.
Sarason, S. B., & Doris, J. (1979). Educational handicap, public policy, and social history: A broadened perspective on mental retardation. New York: Free Press.
Scheerenberger, R. C. (1983). A history of mental retardation. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
Scheerenberger, R. C. (1987). A history of mental retardation: A quarter century of promise. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
Scheff, T. J. (1999). Being mentally ill: A sociological theory (3rd ed.). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Scheff, T. J. (Ed.). (1975). Labeling madness. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Schein, J. D. (1989). At home among strangers: Exploring the Deaf community in the United States. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Schlesinger, L., & Taub, D. E. (Eds.). (1998). Syllabi and instructional materials for teaching sociology and Disability Studies. Washingto n, DC: American Sociological Association.
Schlesinger, L., & Taub, D. E. (Eds.). (2004). Instructional materials for teaching sociology & Disability Studies (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
Schnorr, R., Ford, A., Davern, L., Park-Lee, Seunghee, & Meyer, L. (1989). The Syracuse curriculum revision manual: A group process for developing a community-referenced curriculum guide. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
Scott, R.A. (1969). The making of blind men: A study of adult socialization. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Scull, A. (1984). Decarceration: Community treatment and the deviant – A radical view (2nd ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Shakespeare, T. (Ed.). (1998). The disability reader: Social science perspectives. London and New York: Cassell.
Shuttleworth, G. E., & Potts, W. A. (1916). Mentally deficient children: Their treatment and training (4th ed.). Philadelphia: P. Blakison’s Son & Co.
Silverstein, R. (2000, August). Emerging disability policy framework: A guidepost for analyzing public policy. Iowa Law Review, 85, 1691-2000.
Skrtic, T. M. (1991). Behind special education: A critical analysis of professional culture and school organization. Denver: Love Publishing Company.
Skrtic, T. M. (Ed.). (1995). Disability & democracy: Reconstructing (special) education for postmodernity [Special Education Series]. New York: Teachers College Press.
Smith, R. C. (1996). A case about Amy [Health, Society, and Policy]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Smoller, E. S. (1997). "I can't remember": Family stories of Alzheimer's disease. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Snyder, S. L., Brueggemann, B. J., & Garland-Thomson, R. (Eds.). (2002). Disability studies: Enabling the humanities. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.
Spradley, T. S., & Spradley, J. P. (1978). Deaf like me. New York: Random House.
Stiker, H. (1997). A history of disability [Corporealities: Discourses of Disability]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Stroman, D. F. (2003). The disability rights movement: From deinstitutionalization to self-determination. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc.
Szasz, T. (Ed.). (1973). The age of madness: The history of involuntary mental hospitalization presented in selected texts. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Titchkosky, T. (2003). Disability, self, and society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Tredgold, R. F., & Soddy, K. (1963). Textbook of mental deficiency (subnormality) (10th ed.). Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Co.
Trent, J. W. (1994). Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States [Medicine in Society]. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Van Cleve, J. V., & Crouch, B. A. (1989). A place of their own: Creating the Deaf community in America. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Wendell, S. (1996). The rejected body: Feminist philosophical reflections on disability. London and New York: Routledge.
Williams, P., & Shoultz, B. (1986). We can speak for ourselves: Self-advocacy by mentally handicapped people. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Wilson, J. C., & Lewiecki-Wilson, C. (2001). Embodied rhetorics: Disability in language and culture. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
Wolfensberger, W. (1972). The principle of normalization in human services. Toronto: National Institute on Mental Retardation.
Wolfensberger, W. (1998). A brief introduction to social role valorization: A high-order concept for addressing the plight of societally devalued people, and for structuring human services (3rd ed.). Syracuse, NY: The Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry, Syracuse University.
Wolfensberger, W. (2003). The future of children with significant impairments: What parents fear and want, and what they and others may be able to do about it. Syracuse, NY: The Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry, Syracuse University.