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Works by Contemporary Authors with Disabilities

Poetry

Andrews, Tom. (1994). The Hemophiliacs Motorcycle. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press.

Fiction

Dubus, Andre. (1996). Dancing After Hours. New York: Knopf.

Dunn, Katherine. (1989). Geek Love. New York: Knopf.

Finger, Anne. (1988). Basic Skills. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Autobiography/Memoir

Hockenberry, John. (1995). Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. New York: Hyperion.

Linton, Simi. (2006). My Body Politic. New York: Delta.

Lorde, Audre. (1980). The Cancer Journals. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

Zola, Irving Kenneth. (1982). Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Disability Studies

Albrecht, G. L. (1992). The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America [Sage Library of Social Research Vol. 190]. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Albrecht, G. L., Seelman, K. D., & Bury, M. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of Disability Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Barnartt, S., & Scotch, R. (2001). Disability Protests: Contentious Politics 1970-1999. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Baynton, D. C. (1996). Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.

Berube, M. (1996). Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and An Exceptional Child. New York: Random House.

Blanck, P., Hill, E., Siegal, C. D., & Waterstone, M. (2004). Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy [Hornbook Series]. St. Paul: Thomson West.

Bogdan, R., & Taylor, S. J. (1994). The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories [Special Education Series]. New York: Teachers College Press.

Campbell, J., & Oliver, M. (1996). Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future. London and New York: Routledge.

Davis, L. J. (2002). Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism & Other Difficult Positions [Cultural Front]. New York: NYU Press.

Edgerton, R. B. (1993). The Cloak of Competence, revised and updated. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Eiesland, N. L. (1994). The Disabled God: Toward A Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press.

Frank, G. (2000). Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Berkeley: University of California press.

Freeberg, E. (2001). The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.

Gitlin, T. (1995). The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Goode, D. (1994). A World Without Words: The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind [Health, Society, and Policy Series]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Herr, S. S., Gostin, L. O., & Koh, H. H. (Eds.). (2003). The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different but Equal. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Jenkins, R. (Ed.). (1998). Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Karp, D. A. (1996). Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Krieger, L.H. (2003). Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights [Corporealities: Discourses of Disability]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Lane, H. (1999). The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community (2nd ed.). San Diego: Dawn Sign Press.

Linton, S. (1998). Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity [Cultural Front]. New York: New York University Press.

Longmore, P. K. (2003). Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability [American Subjects]. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Minow, M. (1990). Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Murphy, S. T., & Rogan, P. M. (1995). Closing the Shop: Conversion from Sheltered to Integrated Work. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publis hing Co.

Nagler, M. (Ed.). (1995). Perspectives on Disability: Text and Readings on Disability. Palo Alto, CA: Health Markets Research.

O'Brien, R. (2001). Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Olson, L. K. (2003). The Not-So-Golden Years: Caregiving, the Frail Eldery, and the Long-term Care Establishment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Pelka, F. (1997). The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Pernick, M. S. (1996). The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Ritzer, G. (1998). The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Sacks, O. (1990). Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf. New York: Harper Perennial.

Safford, P. L., & Safford, E. J. (1996). A History of Childhood & Disability. New York: Teachers College Press.

Scheff, T. J. (1999). Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory (3rd ed.). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Skrtic, T. M. (Ed.). (1995). Disability & Democracy: Reconstructing (Special) Education for Postmodernity [Special Education Series]. New York: Teachers College Press.

Titchkosky, T. (2003). Disability, Self, and Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Trent, J. W. (1994). Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States [Medicine in Society]. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wendell, S. (1996). The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. London and New York: Routledge.

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