BOOKS
MAIN TEXTS
Shapiro,
Joseph P. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights
Movement. Random House, 1993
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Shaw,
Barrett, The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages
of the First Fifteen Years of the Disability Rag. The Advocado
Press, 1994
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Fries,
Kenny. Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.
Penguin Putnam, 1997
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Autobiographical
Kenny Fries, Body Remember:
A Memoir. Dutton, 1997.
Excerpt
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John Hockenberry, Moving Violations:
War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence. Hyperion,
1995.
Excerpt
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Denise Sherer Jacobson, The
Question of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey through Adoption, Family,
and Life. Creative Arts Book Company, 1999.
Excerpt
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Georgina Kleege, Sight Unseen.
Yale University Press, 1999.
Excerpt
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Bonnie Sherr Klein, Slow Dance
: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Disability. Pagemill Press, 1998.
Excerpt
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Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of
the Blind: A Memoir. Dial Press,1998
Excerpt
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Nancy Mairs, Waist-High
in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Beacon Press, 1996
(autobiographical essays)
Excerpt
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Connie Panzarino, The Me in
the Mirror. Seal Press, 1994
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Jean Stewart, The Body's Memory.
St.
Martin's Press, 1989 (autobiographical novel)
Excerpt
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Anthologies (Selections may be used from these)
Driedger, Diane and Susan Gray,
eds. Imprinting our Image: An International Anthology by Women with
Disabilities. Gynergy Books, 1992
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Keith, Lois. What Happened
to you? Writing by Disabled Women. The New Press. 1996
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Saxton, Marsha and Florence Howe,
eds. With Wings: An Anthology by and about Women with Disabilities.
Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1987.
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Wade, Cheryl Marie, ed. Range
of Motion: An Anthology of Disability Poetry, Prose and Art. Squeaky
Wheels Press, 1993.
Available from Cheryl Marie Wade, 1613 5th Street, Berkeley CA 94710
References may be made to and excerpts may be used from all of the
following:
Sociology / Disability Studies
Barnes, Colin, Geof Mercer and Tom
Shakespeare, eds. Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction.
Polity Press, 1999.
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Barton, Len. Disability and
Society: Emerging Issues and Insights. Longman, 1996.
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Davis, Lennard. The Disability
Studies Reader. Routledge, 1997.
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Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability:
Knowledge and Identity. New York University Press, 1998
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Oliver, Michael. The Politics
of Disablement. St. Martin's Press, 1990.
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Oliver, Michael. Understanding
Disability: From Theory to Practice. St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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History
Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. By
Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third
Reich. Henry Holt and Co., 1990.
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Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. FDR's
Splendid Deception. Vandemere Press, 1994.
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Henry-Jacques Stiker. A History
od Disability. Translated from the French by William Sayers. University
of Michigan Press,1999
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Disability Rights Movement
Charlton, James I. Nothing
About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment. University
of California Press, 1998
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Pelka, Fred. ABC Clio Companion
to the Disability Rights Movement. Abc-Clio, 1997
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Marta Russell. Beyond Ramps:
Disability at the End of the Social Contract. 1998
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Women
Fine, Michelle and Adrianne Asch.
Women
with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics.
Temple University Press, 1988.
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Finger, Anne. Past Due: A
Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth. Seal Press, 1990.
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Morris, Jenny. From Prejudice
to Pride. New Society Publishers, 1991
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Wates, Michele and Rowen Jade, eds.
Bigger
than the Sky: Disabled Women on Parenting. Women's Press, 1999.
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Wendell, Susan. The Rejected
Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. Routledge,
1996.
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Portrayal of disability
Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary
Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature.
Columbia University Press, 1996
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Gartner, Alan and Tom Joe, eds.
Images
of the Disabled, Disabling Images. Praeger Publishers, 1987.
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Hevey, David. The Creatures
Time Forgot : Photography and Disability Imagery. 1992
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Norden, Martin F. The Cinema
of Isolation : A History of Physical Disability in the Movies.
Rutgers University Press, 1994
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Pointon, Anne and Chris Davies,
eds. Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media. Indiana
University Press, 1998
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Deaf Culture
Padden, Carol and Tom Humphries.
Deaf
in America; Voices from a Culture. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Culture
Psychiatric Survivors
Sharkey, Joe. Bedlam: Greed,
Profiteering and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy. St.
Martin's Press, 1994
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References will be made to the following (Old Classic)
Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes
on the Management of a Spoiled Identity. Englewood: Prentice Hall,
1963.
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