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Exploring Disability Through Global Histories: Reading List

Reading List for Global Histories of Disability

  • Baynton, Douglas C. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Baynton, Douglas C. “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The New Disability History: American Perspectives, edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, 33-57. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
  • Buckingham, Jane. “Patient Welfare vs. the Health of the Nation: Governmentality and Sterilisation of Leprosy Sufferers in Early Post-Colonial India.” Social History of Medicine 19, no. 3 (2006): 483-499.
  • Burch, Susan. Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
  • Burch, Susan. ““Dislocated Histories:” The Canton Asylum for Insane Indians.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 2, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 141-162.
  • Burch, Susan and Hannah Joyner. “The Disremembered Past.” In Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, Belonging, edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Beth Linker, 65-82. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
  • Burch, Susan and Michael Rembis. “Re-Membering the Past: Reflections on Disability Histories.” In Disability Histories, edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis, 1-14. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
  • Curtis, Ben and Steven Thompson. ‘“A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress”: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-1948.” Social History of Medicine 27, no. 4, (2014): 708-727.
  • Davis, Lennard J. “Introduction, Normality, and Power.” In The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 1-16. New York: Routledge, 2016. 5th edition.
  • Eghigian, Greg. From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
  • Ellis, William T. III and Brian Greenwald. “Reflections on Teaching Deaf History at Gallaudet University.” Sign Language Studies 17, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 96-100.
  • Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Greensboro, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
  • Grech, Shaun. “Decolonising Eurocentric Disability Studies: Why Colonialism Matters in the Disability and Global South Debate.” Social Identities 21, no. 1 (2015): 6-21.
  • Greenwald, Brian H. and John Vickrey Van Cleve. “‘A Deaf Variety of the Human Race’: Historical Memory, Alexander Graham Bell, and Eugenics.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14, no. 1 (January 2015): 28-48.
  • Holcomb, Thomas K. Introduction to American Deaf Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Thérèse-Adèle Husson. Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. Translated and with Commentary by Catherine J. Kudlick and Zina Weygand. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
  • Kinder, John. Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • Knittel, Susanne C. The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
  • Kudlick, Catherine. “Modernity’s Miss-Fits: Blind Girls and Marriage in France and America, 1820-1920.” In Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single, edited by Rudolph Bell and Virginia Yans, 201-218. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  • Kudlick, Catherine. “Comment: On the Borderland of Medical and Disability History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 540-559.
  • Lifton, Robert J. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. 2nd edition. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
  • Linker, Beth. “At the Borderland of Medical and Disability History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 499-535.
  • Livingston, Julie. “Comment: On the Borderland of Medical and Disability History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 560-564.
  • Livingston, Julie. “Insights from an African History of Disability.” Radical History Review 94 (2006): 111-126.
  • Metzler, Irina. “Disability in the Middle Ages: Impairment at the Intersection of Historical Inquiry and Disability Studies.” History Compass 9, no. 1 (2011): 45-60.
  • Metzler, Irina. “Disability in the Middle Ages and Cultural History.” WerkstattGeschichte 65, no. 3 (2015): 55-65.
  • Metzler, Irina. “Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages.” In Oxford Handbook on Disability History, edited by Catherine Kudlick, Kim Nielsen and Michael Rembis. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2017.
  • Morse, Carolyn Ann. “Chakagi Zato (The Tea-Sniffing Blind Men).” Asian Theatre Journal 24, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 50-60.
  • Nair, Aparna. Fungible Bodies: Histories of Disability in British India, 1850-1950. Book manuscript under contract with the University of Illinois Press.
  • Nakamura, Karen. Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity, 70-93. New York: Cornell University Press, 2006.
  • Nielsen, Kim. A Disability History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.
  • Ott, Katherine. “Disability Things.” In Disability Histories, edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis, 119-135. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
  • Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.
  • Robertson, Jennifer. “Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese.” History and Anthropology 13, no. 3 (2002): 191-216.
  • Scalenghe, Sara. Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • Senier, Siobhan and Beatriz Miranda-Galarza. “From Colonialism to Postcolonialism and Contemporary Empire.” In Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook, edited by Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic, 393-405. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
  • Shakespeare, Tom. “The Social Model of Disability.” In The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 195-204. New York: Routledge, 2016. 5th edition.
  • Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
  • Turner, David M. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • Wilson, Daniel J. “Comment: On the Borderland of Medical and Disability History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 536-539.

Films

  • Lives Worth Living. Directed by Eric Neudel. Storyline Motion Pictures, 2011.
  • Through Deaf Eyes. Directed by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey. Florentine Films/Hott Productions, 2007.

📎 Useful Links

1. University of Chicago Press
2. New York University Press
3. Rutgers University Press
4. University of North Carolina Press
5. Oxford University Press
6. University of Illinois Press
7. Fordham University Press
8. Basic Books
9. Cambridge University Press

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