Tag: Disability Studies

• ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’- Findlay, Carly

  ‘My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.’ ‘I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.’ ‘We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.’ ‘The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything.’ ‘Don’t fear the…

  The Disability Archives

  19th Oct 2023

  Age, Anthology, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, F, Genre, Memoir, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story/ies, Terminal Illness

  Anthology, Australia, Autobiography, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability Representation, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Growing Up…In Australia, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Series, Short Stories, Short Story Anthology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’- Kafer, Alison

  In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as…

  The Disability Archives

  15th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, K, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Queer

  Academic, Body Politics, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Feminsim, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Disfigured’- Leduc, Amanda

  In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you’re beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she’ll have a happy ending? By examining the ways that…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Academic, Adult, Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Fairy Tales, Genre, L, Literature Studies, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction

  Academic, Adult, Disability Justice, Disability Representation, Disability Studies, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Literature Studies, Non-Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Demystifying Disability’- Ladau, Emily

  An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, inclusive place. Disabled people are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Guidebook, L, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Sociology

  Ableism, Disability Studies, Guidebook, Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Social Issues, Sociology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Decarcerating Disability’- Liat Ben-Moshe

  Title: Decarcerating Disability Subtitle: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Author: Liat Ben-Moshe Other Contributors: N/A Subject: Decarceration, Abolition, Deinstitutionalization, Racial Desegregation, Politics, Sociology, Pyschology Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Published: 2020 ISBN/DOI/EISBN: 978-1-5179-0443-2 [ID: A book cover. The background is cream, with several green circles on the left side. In the centre, the circles appear to…

  The Disability Archives

  29th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, B, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Psychology, Sociology

  Disability Politics, Disability Studies, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Psychology, Race, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Culture – Theory – Disability’- Waldschmidt, Anne, et. al.

  Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture – Theory – Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses…

  The Disability Archives

  29th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, B, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, I, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Sociology, W

  Academic, Anthology, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Non-Fiction, Read By Archivist, Social Issues, Sociology, Stand Alone

• ‘The Collected Schizophrenias’- Wang, Esme Weijun

  An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to…

  The Disability Archives

  23rd Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, Memoir, Mental Health, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Schizophrenia, W

  Academic, Anthology, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Memoir, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Schizophrenia, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Care Work’- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

  In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping…

  The Disability Archives

  13th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, P, Queer, Transgender

  Activism, Anthology, Disability Activism, Disability Justice, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Capitalism and Disability’- Russell, Marta

  This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this…

  The Disability Archives

  13th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Philosophy, R

  Activism, Anthology, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Economics, Essay Anthology, Essays, History, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA

• ‘The Capacity Contract’- Simplican, Stacy Clifford

  In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender. She exposes how democratic theory and politics have long blocked from political…

  The Disability Archives

  13th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, S

  Academic, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Intellectual Disability, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Psychology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book