Disability Studies

Disability studies is a relatively new interdisciplinary academic field focusing on the roles of people with disabilities in history, literature, social policy, law, architecture, and other disciplines.

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Self-Care for Autistic People
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples
Health Communism
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Brittle Joints
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
The Disability Studies Reader
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
A Disability History of the United States
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11)
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

In the ratio, as autism rates are understood to be increasing, the autistic 1 stays the same; it is rather the non-autistic population that seems to be getting smaller. . . The ratio works, in effect, to structure a rivalry or competition—a kind of Foucaultian 'agon' or contest—between constructed oppositions: autism/nonautism, pathology/health, underdevelopment/development, cost/benefit. ...more
Anne McGuire, War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

Disability fluctuates, growing visible, then invisible, then visible again, becoming both ever-present and haunting. Such a problematizing of physical life added a new wrinkle to the genre's double/secret identity trope: the characters now interact with their shifting bodies as bodies with all the complications involved. ...more
Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

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