New Books in Disability Studies

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Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books

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Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2024
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
Apr 03, 2024
Mimi Khúc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 25, 2024
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2024
Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Skylar Bayer and Gabriela Serrato Marks, "Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Isaac Soon, "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
Julia Watts Belser, "Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023
SSEAC Timor Leste Field School: Disability and Work
Nov 23, 2023
Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2023
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2023
Autism in Children's Literature: A Discussion with Jen Malia
Nov 01, 2023
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 08, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 06, 2023
Janice Rieger, "Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 04, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Scott Selberg, "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 21, 2023
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Sep 11, 2023
Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Sep 09, 2023
Johanna Dobrich, "Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 05, 2023
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 05, 2023
Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
Sep 02, 2023
Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)
Sep 01, 2023
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 23, 2023
Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2023
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Aug 11, 2023
Tony McCaffrey, "Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 05, 2023
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023
Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
Jun 09, 2023
James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)
Jun 08, 2023
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jun 07, 2023
Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Jun 06, 2023
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Jun 03, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 01, 2023
Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 19, 2023
Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023
Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
May 14, 2023
Andrew J. Hogan, "Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
May 14, 2023
Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
May 07, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Apr 24, 2023
Ninon Dubourg, "Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service?" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Apr 22, 2023
Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 14, 2023
Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
Mar 07, 2023
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Terry M. Chase, "Spoke by Spoke: How a Broken Back and a Broken Back Led to a WholeHearted Life" (Push on Press, 2021)
Feb 26, 2023
Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
Jan 31, 2023
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
Jan 22, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
Dec 26, 2022
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 03, 2022
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
J. Logan Smilges, "Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Nov 01, 2022
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Oct 24, 2022
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
Oct 20, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
Merrick Daniel Pilling, "Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, "Confidence Culture" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Sep 14, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
Aug 05, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022
Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Megan Birk, "The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 22, 2022
A Conversation with Autumn Wilke about Disability in Higher Education
Apr 15, 2022
Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
Apr 05, 2022
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)
Mar 23, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 25, 2022
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Sarah and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Tiller Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
Nov 22, 2021
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 12, 2021
Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
Nov 08, 2021
Anthony Ianni, "Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams" (Red Lightning Books, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Allyson Day, "The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 28, 2021
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Sep 01, 2021
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 24, 2021
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 16, 2021
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 21, 2021
Jane Gallop, "Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 28, 2021
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jun 09, 2021
Nate Holdren, "Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2021
Jeanne Simons and Sabine Oishi, "Behind the Mirror: The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson, "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice" (Oxford UP, 2018)
May 12, 2021
Michael D. Snediker, "Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021
Dennis J. Frost, "More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021
Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Mar 12, 2021
C. L. Estes and N. B. DiCarlo, "Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology" (Routledge, 2019)
Mar 03, 2021
Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
Dec 22, 2020
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Nov 06, 2020
Rebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body" (HarperOne, 2020)
Nov 06, 2020
David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports" (Center Street, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace" (Teachers College Press, 2020)
Sep 09, 2020
Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
Jul 24, 2020
Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Perspectives
Jul 15, 2020
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
Jun 08, 2020
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 06, 2020
Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Mar 23, 2020
Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society" (AK Press, 2019)
Feb 26, 2020
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2019
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Dec 05, 2019
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2019
Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor" (Duke UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2019
Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)
Feb 07, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Jan 25, 2019
Shelley Tremain, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Sep 11, 2018
Julia Miele Rodas, “Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Sep 03, 2018
Sami Schalk, “Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” (Duke UP, 2018)
Jun 12, 2018
John J. Pitney, “The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
May 08, 2018
David Wanczyk, “Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind” (Swallow Press, 2018)
May 03, 2018
Aimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
Apr 25, 2018
Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
Mar 28, 2018
Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
Jan 29, 2018
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
Dec 14, 2017
Leigh Straw, “After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
Oct 13, 2017
Gareth M. Thomas, “Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic” (Routledge, 2017)
Aug 15, 2017
Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 03, 2017
Claudia Malacrida, “A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Albertas Eugenic Years” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
Dec 29, 2016
Carol Gignoux, “Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD” (Balboa Press, 2016)
Aug 26, 2016
John M. Kinder, “Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Dec 18, 2015
Katie Ellis, “Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance” (Ashgate, 2015)
Nov 08, 2015
Andrea Louise Campbell, “Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Oct 13, 2014
David Wright, “Downs: The History of a Disability” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Sep 30, 2014
Dale Maharidge, “Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War” (Public Affairs, 2013)
Jul 03, 2013
Neil Smith, et al., “The Signs of a Savant: Language Against the Odds” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Nov 15, 2011
Jeffrey Reznick, “John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War” (Manchester UP, 2009)
May 18, 2010