New Books in Disability Studies
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Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
59 mins; April 03, 2026
Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)
42 mins; April 01, 2026
Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
63 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2026
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
51 mins; March 15, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski
52 mins; March 12, 2026
A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
63 hours 12 mins; February 26, 2026
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
57 mins; January 09, 2026
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
74 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2026
Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang eds., "Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
40 mins; November 22, 2025
Eli Clare, "Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming" (Duke UP, 2025)
67 hours 38 mins; November 21, 2025
Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
49 mins; September 27, 2025
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 02, 2025
Stacia Kalinoski, "Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy" ï»ż(U Minnesota Press, 2025)
31 mins; August 20, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
56 mins; August 03, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
40 mins; July 21, 2025
Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
19 mins; July 08, 2025
Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English
39 mins; June 25, 2025
Marc Sapir, "I'll Fly Away: Stories About Amazing Disabled Elders" (2025)
48 mins; June 21, 2025
Luanjiao Hu, "Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications" (IAP, 2024)
61 hours 22 mins; May 25, 2025
Erin Pritchard, "Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism" (Routledge, 2023)
15 mins; May 23, 2025
David Serlin, "Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
74 hours 47 mins; May 12, 2025
Terry Baxter and Libby Coyner-Tsosie, "Stories on Skin: A Librarian's Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
51 mins; April 28, 2025
The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
32 mins; April 27, 2025
Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 12, 2025
Mara Mills et al., "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic" (NYU Press, 2025)
82 hours 43 mins; March 28, 2025
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
53 mins; March 26, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Shahd Alshammari, "Confetti and Ashes" (2025)
27 mins; March 16, 2025
Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
59 mins; March 14, 2025
Alexandra F. Morris, "Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World: Plato’s Stepchildren" (Routledge, 2024)
38 mins; March 09, 2025
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
47 mins; February 09, 2025
Mary Zaborskis, "Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability" (NYU Press, 2024)
24 mins; February 05, 2025
Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
58 mins; February 03, 2025
Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
85 hours 29 mins; January 18, 2025
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
43 mins; December 16, 2024
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
67 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Rachael Litherland and Philly Hare, "People with Dementia at the Heart of Research: Co-Producing Research through The Dementia Enquirers Model" (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)
51 mins; November 16, 2024
Johanna Hedva, "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" (Zando-Hillman Grad Books, 2024)
57 mins; October 27, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
74 hours 3 mins; October 21, 2024
Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
24 mins; October 19, 2024
Raquel Velho on Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
86 hours 8 mins; September 09, 2024
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
58 mins; September 07, 2024
Elizabeth A. Wahler and Sarah C. Johnson, "Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons (Bloomsbury, 2023)
58 mins; August 28, 2024
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
41 mins; August 13, 2024
Yoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo Wildcroft
62 hours 35 mins; August 11, 2024
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
41 mins; August 10, 2024
Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families
38 mins; July 29, 2024
Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)
50 mins; July 27, 2024
Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)
60 hours 23 mins; July 23, 2024
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
86 hours 42 mins; July 10, 2024
Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)
45 mins; July 06, 2024
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
49 mins; June 26, 2024
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
60 hours 3 mins; June 21, 2024
Dasha Kiper, "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain" (Random House, 2023)
64 hours 39 mins; June 18, 2024
Test Subjects
41 mins; June 17, 2024
Jessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)
35 mins; May 31, 2024
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
85 hours 38 mins; May 30, 2024
Building a More Inclusive Society: Disability and Work in Timor-Leste
25 mins; May 25, 2024
Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)
70 hours 19 mins; May 25, 2024
Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (U California Press, 2024)
77 hours 2 mins; May 21, 2024
Sony Coråñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 14, 2024
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
28 mins; April 20, 2024
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 2 mins; April 03, 2024
Mimi KhĂșc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; March 03, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
89 hours 1 min; March 01, 2024
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
31 mins; February 25, 2024
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; January 28, 2024
Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)
57 mins; January 26, 2024
Skylar Bayer and Gabriela Serrato Marks, "Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias" (Columbia UP, 2023)
38 mins; December 18, 2023
Isaac Soon, "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul" (Oxford UP, 2023)
73 hours 21 mins; December 16, 2023
Julia Watts Belser, "Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole" (Beacon Press, 2023)
79 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2023
Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
52 mins; November 24, 2023
SSEAC Timor Leste Field School: Disability and Work
40 mins; November 23, 2023
Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)
64 hours 6 mins; November 17, 2023
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 11, 2023
Autism in Children's Literature: A Discussion with Jen Malia
51 mins; November 01, 2023
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
33 mins; October 24, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
70 hours 13 mins; October 20, 2023
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
34 mins; October 08, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
66 hours 18 mins; October 06, 2023
Janice Rieger, "Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power" (Routledge, 2023)
31 mins; October 04, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
56 mins; September 26, 2023
Scott Selberg, "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
45 mins; September 21, 2023
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
37 mins; September 20, 2023
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
30 mins; September 20, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
46 mins; September 11, 2023
Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
21 mins; September 09, 2023
Johanna Dobrich, "Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process" (Routledge, 2021)
40 mins; September 05, 2023
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
29 mins; September 05, 2023
Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
39 mins; September 02, 2023
Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)
30 mins; August 31, 2023
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 57 mins; August 23, 2023
Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)
41 mins; August 22, 2023
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
58 mins; August 13, 2023
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
46 mins; August 11, 2023
Tony McCaffrey, "Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre" (Routledge, 2023)
42 mins; August 05, 2023
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 21, 2023
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
59 mins; June 28, 2023
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tƍjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
37 mins; June 10, 2023