Disability Studies Texts "Wish List"
July 8,2004

This bibliography is divided into three sections:

1. Wish List of DS Texts
2. Wish List of DS Journals
3. DS Texts Currently at UO Library

Wish List of Disability Studies Texts

Couser, G. Thomas. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Davis, Lennard J., ed. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.

iesland, Nancy. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.

Francis, Leslie Pickering &, Anita Silvers, eds. Americans With Disabilities: Exploring Implications Of The Law For Individuals And Institutions. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Frank, Arthur W. The Wounded Storyteller: Body. Illness, and Ethics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

Fries, Kenny. Staring Back. New York: Plume, 1997.

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Goldfarb, Lyn, Bill Einreinhofer, Itzhak Perlman, and Victoria Ann- Lewis. Ways to Move [videocassette]. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1995.

Hemdl, Diane Price. Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness In American Fiction And Culture. 1840-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1993.

Hevey, David. The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography and Disability Imagery. London: Routledge, 1992.

Hey, Stephen C., Gary Kiger, and Daryl Evans, eds. The Changing World of Impaired and Disabled People in Society. Salem, Oregon: The Society for Disability Studies and Willamette University, 1989: 149- 159.

Kiger, Gary, Stephen C. Hey, and J. Gary Linn, eds. Disability Studies: Definitions and Diversity. Salem, Oregon: The Society for Disability Studies and Willamette University, 1994.

Klobas, Lauri. Disability Drama in TV and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1988.

Krieger, Linda Hamilton. Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights [Compact disc]. Princeton, NJ.: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2004. [UO has this title in print form already.]

Michalko, Rod. The Difference that Disability Makes [Compact disc]. Princeton, N. J.: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2003, [UO has this title in print form already.]

OTBrien, Ruth, ed. Voices From The Edge: Narratives About The Americans With Disabilities Act. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ott, Katherine. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps. Common Courage Press, 1998.

Sacks, Oliver W. Rage for Order: Autism. [videocassette]. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (BBC Worldwide Americas), 1998, ** ALSO ON VIDEODISC

Silvers, Anita, David Wasserman, Mary Mahowald. Disability, Difference. Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Smart, Chris and Thomas G. West. Dyslexia: An Unwrapped Gift [DVD]. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, 2002. ** ALSO ON VHS

Smith, Bonnie G. and Beth Hutchison. Gendering Disability [Compact disc]. Princeton, N. J.: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2004. [UO has this title in print form already.]

Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, and Rosemarie Garland- Thomson. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. New York: Modem Language Association of America, 2002.

Terry, Jennifer and Jacqueline Urla. Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference and Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Vasey, Sian. Disabilities and Motherhood [videocassette]. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1995.

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Wish List of Disability Studies Journals

Disability and Society

Disability Studies Quarterly [including issue 17.4 (Fall 1997)]

Bragg, Lois. "From the Mute God to the Lesser God: Disability in Medieval Celtic and Old Norse Literature." Disability and Society 12.2 (1997 Apr): p. 165- 77 [If we do get this journal, at least get this article.]

Sandahl, Carrie. "Disability and Comic Violence in There's Something about Mary." Disability Studies Quarterly 19.3 (1999 Summer): p. 192- 95.

Wilson, James C. "Making Disability Visible: How Disability Studies Might Transform the Medical and Science Writing Classroom." Technical Communication Quarterly 9.2 (2000 Spring): p. 149- 61, [Just want this specific article,]

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Disability Studies Texts Currently at the UO Library (July 8, 2004)

Baskin, Barbara, and Xaren H. Harris. Notes from a Different Drummer: A Guide to Juvenile Fiction Portraying the Handicapped. New York: Bowker, 1977.

Batson, Trent and Eugene Bergman, eds. Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. 3rd cd. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1985.

Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Berube, Michael. Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999.

Corker, Mairian and Sally French, eds. Disability Discourse. Open Books, 1999.

Crutchfield, Susan and Marcy Epstein, eds. Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture. U of Michigan P, 2000.

Davis, Lennard. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. New York: Verso, 1995.

Davis, Lennard J. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodemism. and Other Difficult Positions. New York: NYUP, 2002.

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. FDR's Splendid Deception. New York: Dodd Mead. 1985.

Gartner, Alan and Tom Joe, eds. Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images. New York: Praeger, 1987.

Gilman, Sander L. Seeing the Insane. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Goggin, Gerard and Christopher Newell. Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Groce. Nora. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Hausman, Bemice L. Changing Sex: Transsexualism. Technology, and the Idea of Gender. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Hillyer, Barbara. Feminism and Disability. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Houck, Davis W. and Amos Kiewe. FDRs Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability. College Station, TX: Texas A& M UP, 2003.

Huet, Marie- Helene. Monstrous Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Humphreys, Tom and Carol Padden. Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Kafer, Alison. "Compulsory Bodies: Reflections on Heterosexuality and Able- Bodiedness." Journal of Women's History 15.3 (2003 Autumn): p. 77- 89.

Kriegel, Leonard. Falling into Life: Essays. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991.

Lane, Harlan. When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf. New York: Random House, 1984.

Larson, Edward J. Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996.

Liachowitz, Claire H. Disability as a Social Construct: Legislative Roots. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 1988.

Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Longmore, Paul K. and Lauri Umansky, eds. The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, c2001. [status: MISSING]

Longmore, Paul K. Why I Burned My Book And Other Essays On Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

Mairs, Nancy. Plaintext: Essays. University of Arizona Press, 1986

-----, Waist- High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Beacon, 1996.

Maston, Floyd. Walking Alone anMarching Together: A History of the Organized Blind Movement in the US. 1940- 1990. Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, 1990.

Mayberry, Katherine J., ed. Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education. New York: NYU P, 1996.

Michalko, Rod. The Two In One: Walking with Smokie. Walking with Blindness. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1999.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Silent Poetry: Deafness. Sign, and Visual Culture in Modem France. Princeton. N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Mitchell, David T. and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2000.

Mitchell, David T., and Sharon L. Snyder, eds. The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1997.

Murphy, Robert F. The Body Silent. New York: Norton, 1987.

Noll, Steven. Feeble- Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South. 1900- 1940. U of North Carolina P, 1995.

Norden, Martin. The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Nussbaum, Felicity and Helen Deutsch, eds. "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body. U of Michigan P, 2000.

Pemick, Martin S. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pointon, Ann, and Chris Davies, eds. Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media. London: BFI, 1997.

Quicke, John. Disability in Modern Children's Fiction. London: Brookline Books, 1985.

Rogers, Naomi. Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR. Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Russo, Mary. The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Schuchman, John S. Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Scotch, Richard. From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.

Shapiro, Joseph. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1993.

Siebers, Tobin, ed. The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art To Body Modification. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

Stiker, Henri- Jacques. A History of Disability. Translated by William Sayers. U of Michigan P, 2000.

Thiher, Alien. Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature. U of Michigan P, 2000.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. NYU Press, 1996.

------. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York : Columbia UP, 1997.

Titchkosky, Tanya. Disability, Self, and Society. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2003.

Trent, James W. Jr. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Berkeley: University of California P, 1994.

Van Cleve, John Vickrey, ed. Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations From the New Scholarship. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1993.

Van Cleve, John V. and Barry A. Crouch. A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. Gallaudet University Press, 1989.

Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back [videorecording]. Brace Yourselves Productions ; producer, David Mitchell; directors, Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell Boston, MA: Fanlight Productions, [1998?]

Wendell, Susan. The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Wills, David. Prosthesis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Wilson, James C. and Cynthia Lewiecki- Wilson, eds. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2001.

Wrigley, Owen. The Politics of Deafness. Washington, DC: Galluadet University Press, 1996.

Zimmerman, Bonnie and Toni A. H. McNaron, Toni A. H., eds. The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty- First Century. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of NY, 1996.

Zola, Irving Kenneth. Missing Pieces: A Chronicle Of Living With A Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, cl982.

Zola, Irving Kenneth. Ordinary Lives: Voices Of Disability & Disease. Cambridge, Mass.: Apple- wood Books, 1982.

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