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Disability Studies Guide

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How Do Books Fit Into My Research?

Books fill a vital role in scholarship. As a researcher, you can use books in any number of ways, but a couple of the most important are:

  • providing a broad overview of a subject area, introducing you to a number of topics for further exploration
  • providing a deep, comprehensive perspective into a specific topic

Below, find some examples of the kinds of books that might help you develop your topics and deepen your knowledge.

Introductory Texts and Edited Collections

A Disability History of the United States by Nielson, Kim E
The New Disability History: American Perspectives   Longmore, Paul K.; Umansky, Lauri, 1959
Disability Studies Reader by Davis, Lennard J
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Longmore, Paul K
The Disability Reader: social science perspectives by Shakespeare, Tom.
Feminist Queer Crip by Kafer, Alison
Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Burch, Susan and Kafer, Alison.
Disability studies : enabling the humanities. Snyder, Sharon L., Brueggemann, Brenda Jo,Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie.
Handbook of disability studies. Albrecht, Gary L.; Seelman, Katherine D.; Bury, Michael.
Rethinking normalcy : a disability studies reader. Michalko, Rod,Titchkosky, Tanya.

Madness in America

Madness in America : cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914. Gamwell, Lynn. Tomes, Nancy.
Mad at school : rhetorics of mental disability and academic life. Price, Margaret.
Defining deviance : sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960. Rembis, Michael A.

Memoirs

International and Global Disability Studies

Disability in Local and Global Worlds

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