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Disability Studies Bookshelf
Browse our librarian-selected list of recommended books in Disability Studies. Click any of the categories below to see the curated list of books on that topic.
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Disability Studies - Introductions
Disabilities History
Ableism
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Arts and Disabilities
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Children and Youth with Disabilities
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Law and Disabilities
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Literature and Disabilities
Music and Disabilities
News Media and Disabilities
Parenting Children with Disabilities
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Philosophy and Disabilities
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Politics and Policy and Disabilities
Psychology and Disabilities
Race and Disabilities
Reading Disabilities
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DISABILITIES - GENERAL HISTORIES
A History of Disability
Publication Date: 2019
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A Cultural History of Disability
Publication Date: 2020
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Disability Histories
Publication Date: 2014
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Writing Disability: a Critical History
Publication Date: 2013
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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Publication Date: 2006
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What We Have Done: an Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement
Publication Date: 2012
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The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
Publication Date: 2011
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The Disability Rights Movement: From Deinstitutionalization to Self-Determination
Publication Date: 2003
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Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric
Publication Date: 2012
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A Disability History of the United States
Publication Date: 2012
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The New Disability History: American Perspectives
Publication Date: 2001
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Accessible America: a History of Disability and Design
Publication Date: 2019
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Crippled Justice: the History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
Publication Date: 2001
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Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, Culture
Publication Date: 2022
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Forgotten Crimes: the Holocaust and People with Disabilities
Publication Date: 2004
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Worth Saving: Disabled Children during the Second World War
Publication Date: 2013
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Disabled Veterans in History
Publication Date: 2012
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The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939
Publication Date: 2001
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Paying with Their Bodies : American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran
Publication Date: 2015
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Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in Word War II America
Publication Date: 2016
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Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
Publication Date: 2019
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Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South
Publication Date: 2015
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African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Publication Date: 2013
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Disability and Social Policy in Britain Since 1750: a History of Exclusion
Publication Date: 2005
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Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture
Publication Date: 2004
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The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century
Publication Date: 2014
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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Publication Date: 2012
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England
Publication Date: 2013
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Beholding Disability in Renaissance England
Publication Date: 2021
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Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about Physical Impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400
Publication Date: 2006
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A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Publication Date: 2013
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Disability in the Middle Ages
Publication Date: 2010
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Disability in the Arab Ottoman World, 1500-1800
Publication Date: 2014
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies
Publication Date: 2012
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Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: a Social and Cultural History
Publication Date: 2017
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Disabilities in Roman Antiquity
Publication Date: 2013
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The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Publication Date: 2003
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Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion: the Archaeology and Anthropology of "Difference"
Publication Date: 2000
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HISTORIES OF SPECIFIC DISABILITIES
Hyperactive: the Controversial History of ADHD
Publication Date: 2012
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Autism: a Social and Medical History
Publication Date: 2013
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In a Different Key: the Story of Autism
Publication Date: 2016
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A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers
Publication Date: 2010
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Blindness: the History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
Publication Date: 2001
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The Blind in British Society: Charity, State, and Community, c. 1780-1930
Publication Date: 2004
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Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Publication Date: 2019
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Philosophy As Disability and Exclusion: the Development of Theories on Blindness, Touch, and the Arts in England, 1688-2010
Publication Date: 2016
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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
Publication Date: 2014
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The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
Publication Date: 2009
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Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision, and Touch after Descartes
Publication Date: 2016
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Veterans with a Vision: Canada's War Blinded in Peace and War
Publication Date: 2010
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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Publication Date: 2010
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The Deaf History Reader
Publication Date: 2007
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Deaf World: a Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook
Publication Date: 2001
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Damned for Their Difference: the Cultural Construction of Deaf People as "Disabled" : a Sociological History
Publication Date: 2002
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The Language of Light: a History of Silent Voices
Publication Date: 2017
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Deaf Heritage: a Narrative History of Deaf America
Publication Date: 2011
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The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making
Publication Date: 2011
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Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
Publication Date: 2002
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Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture
Publication Date: 2012
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In Our Own Hands: Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970
Publication Date: 2016
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Fighting in the Shadows: the Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War
Publication Date: 2017
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From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
Publication Date: 2004
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Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945-1995
Publication Date: 2012
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Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture
Publication Date: 2013
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Deaf People in Hitler's Europe
Publication Date: 2002
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From Pathology to Public Sphere: the German Deaf Movement, 1848-1914
Publication Date: 2013
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Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France
Publication Date: 2008
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Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
Publication Date: 2017
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Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity
Publication Date: 2006
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Downs: the History of a Disability
Publication Date: 2011
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: a History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Publication Date: 2017
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Broken: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability
Publication Date: 2018
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Those They Called Idiots: the Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present day
Publication Date: 2020
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Intellectual Disability: a Conceptual History, 1200-1900
Publication Date: 2018
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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': the Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
Publication Date: 2011
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Fools and Idiots?: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Age
Publication Date: 2016
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The Incomplete Child: an Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities
Publication Date: 2009
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