Disability studies / Disability theory (52 books)

A list of books--primarily academic, non-fiction, anthologies, and memoirs--that take a political approach to disability, chronic illness, deafness, or madness. Special emphasis on those that address intersections with race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, or class.

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1	The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 5,312 ratings score: 474, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Cultural Front Book 9) by Robert McRuer 3.99 avg rating — 442 ratings score: 387, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 2,506 ratings score: 376, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer 4.39 avg rating — 1,032 ratings score: 374, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 302 ratings score: 280, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts 4.45 avg rating — 5,197 ratings score: 271, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 1,622 ratings score: 254, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability by Jennifer Bartlett (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 252 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew 4.29 avg rating — 2,597 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Never Say Invisible: A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS by Jeremy Schreiber (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 166 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21) by Christopher M. Bell (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 4.19 avg rating — 304 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts 4.25 avg rating — 1,875 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price 4.55 avg rating — 139 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,580 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Trauma Queen by Luna Merbruja (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 176, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic by Nirmala Erevelles 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Feminist Disability Studies by Ellen Samuels (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 100 ratings score: 165, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 1,057 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South by Mary Herring Wright 3.91 avg rating — 97 ratings score: 163, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe 4.39 avg rating — 38 ratings score: 159, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Disability Rights and Wrongs by Tom Shakespeare 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 156, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton 4.02 avg rating — 163 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness by Megan Winkelman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience by Eileen Cronin (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 660 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor 4.56 avg rating — 697 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 5,899 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	AUTISM CAUSES UNVEILED: The Hidden Traumatic Brain Injury at Birth Causing the Autism Epidemic by Dinesh Danny 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	It’s Just a Matter of Balance: You Can’t Put a Straight Leg on a Crooked Man by Kevin S. Garrison (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Liat Ben-moshe (Editor) 4.45 avg rating — 74 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum by Mab Segrest 3.79 avg rating — 192 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America by Laurie Edwards (Goodreads Author) 3.49 avg rating — 436 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl 4.16 avg rating — 626 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11) by Susan Wendell 4.25 avg rating — 171 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein 4.01 avg rating — 1,724 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Inbetweenland by Jacks McNamara (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 by Natalia Molina (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 115 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan Schweik (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 4.28 avg rating — 633 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederström (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 518 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (Biopolitics Book 18) by Jonathan M. Metzl (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 155 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan by Karen Nakamura 4.44 avg rating — 117 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Defiant by Michael Scott Monje Jr. (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History by Corbett Joan OToole 4.58 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency by Michael Gill 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Criptiques by Caitlin Wood (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 113 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	When The Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 116 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X.Z. Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 131 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black 4.22 avg rating — 1,003 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability, 3) by Susan Schweik (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich 3.91 avg rating — 490 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars