Disability Studies Bibliography

This listing of texts pertaining to the study of disability is meant to provide faculty, staff and students with a significant bibliography of scholarship and literature for the inclusion of disability, the analysis of the disabled figure, and construction of meaning related to the body in courses dealing with critical thinking, ideals, historical context, cultural and gender diversity, United States context, and contemporary societies and values.

Although these resources are not located in the Disability Services Office, we encourage you to research them in your local library.

The database is broken into four parts as follows:

A - F     G - L     M - R     S - Z

Authors A - F

Ainlay, Stephen, Gaylene Becker, and Lerita M. Coleman, eds. The Dilemma of Difference: A Multidisciplinary View of Stigma. New York: Plenum Press, 1986.

Alcoff, Linda. "Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralist Feminism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." Signs 13, no. 3 (1988): 405-36.

Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of

American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1991.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1969.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father's House. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Aptheker, Bettina. Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Arieli, Yehoshua. Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America, 1964.

Aristotle. Generation of Animals. Trans. A. L. Peck. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944.

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. Terence Irwin. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1985.

Aristotle. "The Poetics." In Hazard Adams, ed., Critical Theory Since Plato. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971, pp. 48-66.

Asch, Adrienne and Michelle Fine, eds. "Moving Beyond Stigma." Journal of Social Issues 44, no. I (1988).

Bader, Julia. American Realism: New Essays. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination. ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: Texas University Press, 1981.

Baldwin, James. "Everybody's Protest Novel." In James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955, pp. 13-23.

Balsamo, Anne. "On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body" Camera Obscura 28 (Jan. 1992): 207-36.

Banner, Louis W. American Beauty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.

Banner, Louis W. "Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation." Journal of American History 60, no. I (June 1973): 23-41.

Barasch, Frances K. "Introduction." In Thomas Wright, A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. 1865. Reprint, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1968.

Barker-Benfield, G. J. The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Barnum, P. T. Struggles and Triumphs. 1869. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1970.

Barrett, Shaw. The Ragged Edge. Louisville, KY: Avocado Press, 1994.

Barrow, Mark V. "A Brief History of Teratology." In T. V. N. Persaud, ed., Problems of Birth Defects. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1977, pp. 18-28.

Bason, Trent, and Bergman, Eugene. Angles and Outcasts. Gallaudet College Press, 1985.

Batson, Trent and Bergman, Eugene. Notes from a Different Drummer: A Guide to Juvenile Fiction Portraying Handicapped. New York: Bowker, 1977.

Bauman, H. Dirksen L. Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Baym, Nina, et al., eds. Norton Anthology of American Literature. 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1994.

Baym, Nina. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.

Baynton, Douglas C. "A Silent Exile on This Earth: The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century." American Quarterly 44, June 1992.

Baynton, Douglas C. "Bringing Disability to the Center: Disability as an Indispensable Category of Historical Analysis." Disability Studies Quarterly 1, Summer 1997.

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

Baynton, Douglas C. Out of Sight: The Suppression of American Sign Language. In Multilingual American Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. New York: The Free Press, 1973.

Beecher, Henry Ward. Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects. New York: J. B. Ford, 1873.

Beers, Todd. Waiting Room. Rochester: Writers and Books, 1991.

Begum, N. "Disabled Women and the Feminist Agenda." Feminist Review 40, Spring 1992.

Bellah, Robert N., et al. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in

American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972.

Berger, Peter and Thomas Luchmann. The Social Construction of Reality. New York: Doubleday, 1966.

Berkowitz, Edward D. Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. New York: Cambridge University, 1987.

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

Berube, Michael. "The Cultural Representation of People with Disabilities Affects Us All." The Chronicle of I Education, 30 May 1997.

Bikien, Douglas. "The Culture of Policy: Disability Images and Their Analogues in Public Policy." Policy Studies Journal 15, March 1987.

Biklin, Douglas and Lee Bailey, eds. Rudely Stamp'd: Imaginal Disability and Prejudice. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.

Biklin, Douglas and Robert Bogdan. "Media Portrayals of Disabled People: A Study in Stereotypes." Interracial Books for Children Bulletin 8, nos. 6, 7 (1977): 4-9.

Blumin, Stuart. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Bogdan, Robert and Steven Taylor. "Toward a Sociology of Acceptance: The Other Side of the Study of Deviance." Social Policy 18, no.2 (Fall 1987): 34-39.

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

Bondeson, Jan and A. E. W Miles. "Julia Pastrana, the Nondescript: An Example of Congenital, Generalized Hypertrichosis Terminalis with Gingival Hyperplasia." American Journal of Medical Genetics 47 (1993): 198-212.

Bone, Robert. The Negro Novel in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.

Bordo, Susan R. "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist

Appropriation of Foucault. In Alison Jaggar and Susan Bordo, eds., Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989, pp. 13-31.

Bordo, Susan R. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Boucht, Brigitta. et al. Postfeminism. Esbo, Finland: Draken, 1991.

Bourne, Randolph. The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918. New York: Urizen Books, 1977.

Bowe, Frank. Handicapping America: Barriers to Disabled People. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Bower, Eli M. The Handicapped in Literature. Denver: Love Publishing, 1980.

Boydston, Jeanne, Mary Kelley, and Anne Margolis. The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Bradford, Phillips Verner and Harvey Blume. Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Brody, Saul Nathaniel. The Disease of the Soul. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Brown, Christy. The Childhood Story of Christy Brown (previously entitled My Left Foot). London: Pan Books, 1972.

Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Brown, JoAnne. The Definition of a Profession: The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing: 1890-1930. 1992.

Brown, Richard D. Modernization: The Transformation of American Life 1600-1865. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.

Browne, Susan E., Connors, Debra, and Stern, Nancy. With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Woman's Anthology. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1985.

Bruchac, Joseph. Return of the Sun. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1989.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. "Still-Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role. Ethics and Representation" in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. eds. Peter Mortensen and Gesa E. Kirsch. Urbana, IL: National Council of English, 1996.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. "Whole Brains, Half Brains, and Writing." Rhetoric Review 8, Fall 1989.

Buckland, Francis T. "The Female Nondescript Julia Pastran and Exhibitions of Human Mummies, etc." In Curiosities of Natural History. vol. 4. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888.

Burbick, Joan. Heating the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Cambridge University, n.d.

Burgdorf, Marcia Pearce and Robert Burgdorf, Jr. "A History of Unequal Treatment: The Qualifications of Handicapped Persons as a'Suspect Class'Under the Equal Protection Clause." Santa Clara Lauyer 15 (1975): 855-910.

Burns, Stuart. Freaks in a Circus Tent: Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 1, 1972.

Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex." New York:Routledge, 1993.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Callen, Michael. Surviving AIDS. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.

Canguilhem, Georges. The Normal and the Pathological. Trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett. New York: Zone Books, 1989.

Carlton, Ann. "Beyond Gothic and Grotesque: A Feminist View of Three Female Characters of Carson McCullers." in Pembroke 20 (1988): 54-68.

Carver, Raymond. Short Stories. Selections- Cathedral. New York: Random House, 1983.

Cassuto, Leonard D. The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Cernin, Kim. The Obsession: Rejections on the Tyranny of Slenderness. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

Chernin, Kim. The Hungry Self. Women, Eating, and Identity. New York: Times Books, 1985.

Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Cixous, Helene. "The Laugh of Medusa" Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1976): 875-93.

Clark, David L. and Myser, Catherine. "Fixing Katie and Ellish: Medical Documentaries and the Regulation of Conjoined Twins." Literature and Medicine 17.1. 1998.

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Cohen, Patricia Cline. A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Coles, Robert. The Spiritual Life of Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Compton, Tom. "The Brief History of Disability." Berkeley, Cal.: unpublished manuscript, 1989.

Cook, Peter. Picture Editing in Mind: Mine Ears Sometimes Are Wiser Than Me. In ACTION VII. Cohn, Jim and Donna Kachites, eds.. Twenty-first Sensual Press, 1987.

Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Coultrap-McQuin, Susan. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Couser, G. Thomas. "Introduction." A/B Autobiography Studies 6 (Spring 1991): 1-7.

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

Cummins, Maria. The Lamplighter. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879.

"Curious History of the Baboon Lady, Miss Julia Pastrana." Pamphlet. Cambridge: Harvard Theatre Collection.

Currie, Sheldon. "Freaks and Folks: Comic Imagery in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." The Antigonish Review 62-63 (Summer-Fall 1985).

Cushman, Keith. D.H. Lawrence's Literary Inheritors. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Cushman, Keith. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Daly, Mary. Gynlecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978.

Dante, Alighieri. Inferno XXIX. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1954.

Daston, Lorraine and Park, Katherine. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. Zone, 1998.

Davis, Fred. "Deviance Disavowal: The Management of Strained Interaction by the Visibly Handicapped." Social Problems 9 (1961): 120-32.

Davis, Kathy. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Davis, Lennard J. ed. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1996.

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

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills. 1861. Reprint, New York: Feminist Press, 1972.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Margret Howth. 1862. Reprint, New York: Feminist Press, 1990.

Davoud, Nicole. Where Do I Go From Here? London: Piatkus Publishers Limited, 1985.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. Trans. H. M. Parshley 1952; reprint, New York: Vintage, 1974, P. xix.

DeBord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Detroit: Black and Red, 1983.

Dibernard, Barbara. Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education. New York University Press, 1996.

Dimock, Wai Chee. Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Donovan, Josephine. Feminist Theory. New York: Continuum, 1992.

Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. New York: Praeger, 1966.

Drimmer, Frederick. Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People. New York: Atheneum, 1988.

Drimmer, Frederick. Very Special People. New York: Amjon Press, 1983.

Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk. 1903. Reprint, New York: New American Library, 1982.

Dyer, Richard. The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Edwards, Martha Lynn. "Let There Be a Law that No Deformed Child Shall Be Reared: The Cultural Context of Deformity in the Ancient Greek World." The Ancient History Bulletin 10, July 1997.

Edwards, Martha Lynn. Physical Disability in the Ancient Greek World. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1995.

Edwards, Martha Lynn. "Women and Disability in Ancient Greece" in The Ancient World, 29, 1998.

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1979.

Eiesiand, Nancy. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon, 19??.

Eisenstein, Hester. Contemporary Feminist Thought. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.

Elshtaain, Jean Bethke. Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1865.

Epstein, Julia. Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine, and Storytelling. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Erkkila, Betsy. "Ethnicity, Literary Theory, and the Grounds of Resistance." American Quarterly 47, no. 4 (Dec. 1995): 563-94.

Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: The Free Press, 1989.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. New York: Crown, 1991.

Fiedler, Leslie A. Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Fiedler, Leslie A. "Pity and Fear: Images of the Disabled in Literature and the Popular Arts." Salmagundi 57. 1982, 57-69.

Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion Books. 1960.

Fiedler, Leslie. "Pity and Fear." Salmagundi 57 (Fall 1982): 57-69.

Fine, Michelle and Adrienne Asch, eds. Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Fine, Michelle and Adrienne Asch, eds. "Disabled Women: Sexism without the Pedestal." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 8 (2): 233-48.

Finger, Anne. "Claiming All Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disability." In Rita Arditti, Renate Duell Klein, and Shelley Minden, eds., Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? Boston: Pandora, 1984.

Finger, Anne. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1990.

Finkelstein, Victor. Attitudes and Disabled People: Issues for Discussion. New York: World Rehabilitation Fund, 1980.

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1970.

Fischer, Renate, and Harlan Lane, eds. Looking Back: A Reader on the History of Deaf Communities and Their Languages. Hamburg: Signum, 1993.

Fisher, Philip. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Folks, Jeffrey J. The Enduring Chill: Physical Disability in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge. University of Dayton Review 22 (Winter 1993-1994): 81-88.

Foster, Patricia and Swander, Mary. The Healing Circle. Penguin/Putnam, 1998.

Foucault, Michel. Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. Alan M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1973.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans. Alan M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1965.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. ed. and trans. Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. Trans. Alan M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Feminism Without Illusions. Chapel Hill: University of North California Press, 1991.

Frank, Arthur W. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.

Freeberg, Ernest. "An Object of Peculiar Interest: The Education of Laura Bridgeman." Church History, 61, 1992.

Freedman, Rita Jackaway. Beauty Bound. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1986.

Freud, Sigmund. "Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work." In Collected Papers vol. 4. Trans. Joan Riviere. London: Hogarth, 1957, pp. 318-23.

Friedman, John Block. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Friedman, Lawrence M. and Jack Ladinsky. "Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents." Columbia Law Review 67, no. I (Jan. 1967): 50-81.

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

Fuller, R.C. "Lunging in the Dark: Blindness and Vision, Dissappointment and Aspiration in Reynolds Price." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 33 (Winter/Spring 1995): 45-46.

Fuss, Diana. Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference. New York: Routiedge, 1989.

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