Disability Studies Bibliography

The database is broken into four parts as follows:

A - F     G - L     M - R     S - Z

Authors S-Z

Sacks, Oliver. Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Samuels, Shirley, ed. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. "Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition." Representations 24 (Fall 1988): 28-59.

Sandars, N.K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Harmondsworth, NY: Penguin, 1977.

Saxton, A. H.P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. New York: New York University Press, 1989.

Saxton, Marsha and Florence Howe. With Wings: An Anthology of Literature By and About Women with Disabilities. New York Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1987.

Saxton, Marsha. "Born and Unborn: The Implications of Reproductive Technologies for People with Disabilities." In Rita Arditti, Renate Duell Klein, and Shelley Minden, eds., Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? Boston: Pandora, 1984,pp-298-312.

Saxton, Marsha. "Prenatal Screening and Discriminatory Attitudes about Disability" Gene Watch (Jan.-Feb. 1987): 8-10.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Schiebinger, Londa. Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Schur, Edwin M. Labeling Women Deviant: Gender, Stigma, and Social Control. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

Scotch, Richard K. From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Scott, Joan Wallach. "Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism." Feminist Studies 14, no. I (Spring 1988): 33-50.

Scott, Robert A. The Making of Blind Men. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1969.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Sekula, Allan. "The Body and the Archive." October 39 (Winter 1986): 3-64. Selzer, Mark. Bodies and Machines. New York: Routiedge, 1992.

Selzer, Richard. Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Shakespeare, William. Richard III. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1968.

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

Shields, Bill. Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome. Samisdat Publications, 1988.**

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

Silvers, Anita. "Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (Or Justice for People with Disabilities"). Hypatia IO, no. I (Winter 1995): 30-55.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity. New York: Norton, 1973.

Slay, Jack Jr. "Crippled Little Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing." In Nineteenth Century American Women Writers: A Critical Collection. Campus Blackwell, 1997.

Slay, Jack Jr. "Delineations in Freakery: Freaks in the Fiction of Harry Crews and Katherine Dunn. " In Literature and the Grotesque. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

Slay, Jack Jr. "Integrating Disability Studies into the Existing Curriculum: The Example of Women and Literature at Harvard University. " Radical Teacher 47 (Fall 1995).

Slay, Jack Jr. "Toward a Feminist Theory of the Physically Disabled Subject." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24: Sept 1995.

Smith, M. Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease. Philadelphia, Tei University Press, 1987.

Smith, Sidonie. Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Smith, Sidonie. "Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism. in Getting a Life: Everyday of Autobiography, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996: 226-246.

Smith-Rosenberg and Charles Rosenberg. 'The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America." In Judith Leavitt Walzer, ed., Women and Health in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984,pp.12-27.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sokolov, J. "Julia Pastrana and Her Child." Lancet 1 (1862): 467-69.

Solomon, Howard M. "Stigma and Western Culture: A Historical Approach." In Stephen Ainlay et al., eds., The Dilemma of Difference: A Multidisciplinary View of Stigma. New York: Plenum, 1986, pp. 59-76.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. Cancer Ward. New York: Dial Press, 1968.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1989.

Sophocles. The Theban Plays. Translated by E.F. Watling. Harmondsworth, NY: Penguin Classics, 1967.

Spelman, Elizabeth V. Inessential Women: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought . Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.

Spillers, Hortense J. "Changing the Letter: The Yokes, the Jokes of Discourse, or, Mrs. Stow, Mr. Reed. In Deborah E. McDow Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987. and the Literary Imagination: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp.25-61.

Stallybrass, Peter and Allen White. The Poetics and Politics of Transgression. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Starr, Paul. Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York, Basic Books: 1982.

Steig, Michael. "Defining the Grotesque: An Attempt at Synthesis." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 29, no. 2 (Winter 1970): 253-60.

Stewart, Susan. Nonsense: Aspects of Intellectuality in Folklore and Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Stigler, Stephen M. "Stigmatization." New Catholic Encyclopedia. vol. 13. New York: McGraw Hill, 1967.

Stigler, Stephen M. The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

Stone, Deborah. The Disabled State. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: 1853.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly. 1852. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1981.

Tagg, John. "A Means of Surveillance: 'Me Photograph as Evidence in Law." In John Tagg, The Burden of Representation: Evidence, Truth, and Order. London: Macmillan, 1988, pp. 66-102.

Tate, Claudia, ed. Black Women Writers at Work. New York: Continuum, 1988.

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

Terry, Wallace. Bloods. New York: Random House, 1984.

Thomas, Brook. Cross Examinations of Law and Literatti re: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Thomas, John L. "Romantic Reform in America, 1815-1865." American Quarterly 17 (Winter 1965): 656-81.

Thomson, Philip. The Grotesque. London: Methuen. 1972.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. "Redrawing the Boundaries of Feminist Disability Studies." Feminist Studies 20. (Fall 1994): 583-95.

Thurer, Shari. "Disability and Monstrosity: A Look at Literary Distortions of Handicapping Conditions." Rehabilitation Literature 4 1, no. 1-2 (1980): 12-15.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. vols. I and II- 1840, 1862. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790- 1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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

Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun. New York: L. Stuart, 1970.

Truzzi, Marcello. "Circus and Side Shows." In Myron Matlaw, ed., American Popular Entertainment. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979, pp. 175-85.

Tuana, Nancy. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Women's Nature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Turner, Victor. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Twitchell, James B. Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Tyor, Peter, and Leland Bell. Caring for the Retarded in America: A History. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984.

U.S. Senate. 1989. The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1989. 101st Congress: Res. 933.

Valentine, Phyllis Klein. "A Nineteenth-Century Experiment in Education of the Handicapped: The American Association for the Deaf and Dumb." New England Quarterly 64, September 1991.

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

Van Cleve, John. Nebraska's Oral Law of 1911 and the Deaf Community. Nebraska History 65, Summer 19??.

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

Van O'Connor, William. The Grotesque: An American Genre and Other Essays. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962.

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899. Reprint, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

Verbrugge, Martha. Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Vertinsky, Patricia. "Exercise, Physical Capability, and the Eternally Wounded Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century North America." Journal of Sport History 14, no. I (1987): 7.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Washington Square Press, 1982.

Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers, 1815-1860. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

Walters, Ronald G. The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Warhol, Robyn R. "Poetics and Persuasion: Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Realist Novel." Essays in Literature 13, no. 2 (Fall 1988): 283-98.

Warkany, Josef. "Congenital Malformations in the Past." In T. V. N. Persaud, ed., Problems of Birth Defects. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1977, pp. 5-17.

Warren, Joyce W. American Narcissis: Individualism and Women in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984.

Watson, Frederick. Civilization and the Cripple. Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co. Pubs.. 1980, orig. pub. 1930.

Weed, Elizabeth. "Introduction: Terms of Reference." In Elizabeth Weed, ed., Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics. New York: Routiedge, 1989, pp. ix-xxxi.

Weinberg, Nancy. "Another Perspective: Attitudes of People with Disabilities." In Harold E. Yuker, eds., Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities. New York: Springer, 1988, pp. 141-53.

Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-60." American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1966): 151-74.

Wendell, Susan. The Rejected Body.- Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. New York: Routledge, 19??.

West, Paul. Words for a Deaf Daughter and Gala. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993.

Wicke, Jennifer. "Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity." South Atlantic Quarterly 93, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 751-78.

Willis, Susan. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." In Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 83-109.

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

Wilson, Dudley. Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. London: Routiedge, 1993.

Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig; or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black. 1859. Reprint, New York: Vintage, 1983.

Windsor, Margaret. History of Special Education: From Isolation to Integration. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1993.

Winefield, Richard. Never the Twain Shall Meet.- Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1987.

Winship, Michael P. "Prodigies, Puritanism, and the Perils of Natural Philosophy: The Example of Cotton Mather." William and Mary Quarterly (Jan. 1994): 92-105.

Wittig, Monique. "The Straight Mind." Feminist Issues 1, no. I (Summer 1980): 101-10.

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. New York: William Morrow, 1991.

Wolfensberger, Wolf. The Origin and Nature of Our Institutional Models. Syracuse, N.Y: Human Policy Press, 1975.

Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Wood, Ann Douglas. "The Fashionable Diseases: Women's Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America." In Judith Walzer Leavitt, ed., Women and Health in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, pp. 222-38.

Wright, Beatrice. "Attitudes and the Fundamental Negative Bias: Conditions and Corrections." In Harold Yuker, ed. Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities. New York: Springer, 1988, pp. 3-21.

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

Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Breast. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Yetman, Norman R. Voices From Slavery. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Yoko, Ota. City of Corpses. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Young, Iris Marion. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990.

Young, Iris Marion. Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Yuker, Harold E., ed. Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities. New York: Springer, 1988.

Zami. A New Spelling of My Name. Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press,

1982.

Zola, Irving Kenneth. Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University, 1982.

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