Recommended Readings

Frank Rudy Cooper

Ann C. McGinley & Frank Rudy Cooper, Intersectional Cohorts, Dis/ability, and Class Actions, 47 Fordham Urban L.J. 293 (2020) (arguing it is appropriate to use disability law to assist poor, black and brown school children as a class because they are a discrete and cohesive “intersectional cohort”).

Subini Ancy Annama, Beth A. Ferri & David J. Connor, Disability critical Race Theory:  Exploring the Intersectional Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in Education, 42 Review of Research in Education 46  (2018) (applying intersectionality theory to critical disabilities studies).

Tobin Siebers, Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment–For Identity Politics in a New Register. (discussing embodiment theory in light of social construction theory).

Harriet Tubman Collecitve to Ruderman White Paper on the Media Coverage of Use of Force and Disability, Accountable Reporting on Disability, Race, Police Violence.

 

Micky Lee

I am a feminist political economist who studies information and technology, so I am interested in readings that critically examine the boundary between the body and technology. My recommendations are:

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. (2001). Seeing the disabled: Visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography. In Longmore, P. K., & Umansky, L. (Eds.) The new disability history: American perspectives (pp. 335-374). New York: New York University Press.

Gerschick, Thomas J. (2000). Toward a theory of disability and gender. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25(4), 1265-1268.

Loeser, Cassandra, Vicki Crowley, and Barbara Pini. (2017). Introductory essay. In Cassandra Loeser, Vicki Crowley, and Barbara Pini (Eds.) Disability and Masculinities: Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness (pp. xxv-lxxiv). London: Palgrave.

Media and Disability bibliography.

Mills, Marc & Sterne, Jonathan. (2017). Afterword II: Dismediation—Three proposals, six tactics. In E. Ellcessor & B. Kirkpatrick (Eds), Disability media studies (pp. 365-378). New York: NYU Press.

Moser, Ingunn. (2006). Sociotechnical practices and difference: On the interferences between disability, gender, and class. Science Technology, and Human Value, 31(5), 537-564.

 

Pat Reeve

O’Connor, Cliodhna. (2016). “ Embodiment and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Towards an Integration of Embodiment and Social Representations Theory,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 47:1. DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12110.

Longmore, P. K., & Umansky, L. (2001). (Eds.) The new disability history: American perspectives. New York University Press.

Rose, Sarah F. (2017). No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s. University of North Carolina Press.

Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson. (2002). Disability studies: enabling the humanities. Modern Language Association of America.

 

Jennifer Way

Jackson Aaron, “Reforming the veteran: propaganda and agency in the First World War Reconstruction Hospitals,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 107 no. 4 (October 2019), 472-487

Gary Albrecht, The Disability Business, Rehabilitation in America (Newbury Park, California: Sage Press, 1992)

Christopher Bell, “Introducing White Disability Studies, A Modest Proposal,” 275-282, in Lennard J. Davis, The Disability Studies Reader 2d ed (New York, NY: Routledge, 2006)

Glenn Gritzer and Arnold Arluke, The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical Specialization, 1890-1980 (University of California Press, 1985)

Beth Linker, War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War 1 America (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, editors. The New Disability History, American Perspectives (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001)

Joseph McBrinn, “’The work of masculine fingers’: the disabled soldiers’ embroidery industry, 1918-1955,” Journal of Design History 31 no. 1 (2017), 1-23

Erin Morton, “The Object of therapy: Mary E. Black and progressive possibilities of weaving,” Utopian Studies 22 no. 2 (2011), 321-340

Kathlyn L. Reed, “Pioneering occupational therapy and occupational science: Ideas and practitioners before 1917,” Journal of Occupational Science 24 no. 4 (2017), 400-411

Rosemarie Garland Thomas, “Seeing the Disabled, Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography,” 335-374, in Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, editors, The New Disability History, American Perspectives (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001)

Richard Verville, War, Politics, and Philanthropy, The History of Rehabilitation Medicine (University Press of America, Inc., 2009)

Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad, “Disability and Culture: An Overview,” 3-32, in Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte, editors, Disability and Culture (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995)