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New Books in Disability Studies
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Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
43 mins; June 09, 2023
James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)
26 mins; June 08, 2023
Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
39 mins; June 06, 2023
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
16 mins; June 03, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; June 01, 2023
Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
30 mins; May 19, 2023
Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
40 mins; May 18, 2023
Andrew J. Hogan, "Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 14, 2023
Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
14 mins; May 14, 2023
Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 07, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; April 24, 2023
Ninon Dubourg, "Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service?" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
49 mins; April 22, 2023
Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)
24 mins; April 14, 2023
Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
42 mins; March 21, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
25 mins; March 07, 2023
Terry M. Chase, "Spoke by Spoke: How a Broken Back and a Broken Back Led to a WholeHearted Life" (Push on Press, 2021)
28 mins; February 26, 2023
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 54 mins; February 26, 2023
Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
61 hours 34 mins; January 31, 2023
Elizabeth FarfĂĄn-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
75 hours 29 mins; January 24, 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
60 hours 57 mins; January 22, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 21 mins; January 11, 2023
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
68 hours 17 mins; December 26, 2022
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
52 mins; December 03, 2022
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
60 hours 49 mins; November 29, 2022
J. Logan Smilges, "Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; November 24, 2022
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
68 hours 44 mins; November 18, 2022
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; November 17, 2022
TherĂ­ Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
62 hours 14 mins; November 14, 2022
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
52 mins; November 01, 2022
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
62 hours 33 mins; October 24, 2022
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
44 mins; October 24, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
51 mins; October 20, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
41 mins; October 12, 2022
Merrick Daniel Pilling, "Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
39 mins; September 29, 2022
Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, "Confidence Culture" (Duke UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 27, 2022
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
44 mins; September 14, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
44 mins; September 09, 2022
Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
22 mins; August 05, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
70 hours 35 mins; July 08, 2022
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
56 mins; June 17, 2022
Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
70 hours 15 mins; June 16, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
44 mins; June 10, 2022
Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment" (Duke UP, 2022)
76 hours 9 mins; May 17, 2022
Megan Birk, "The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
37 mins; April 22, 2022
A Conversation with Autumn Wilke about Disability in Higher Education
38 mins; April 15, 2022
Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
84 hours 27 mins; April 05, 2022
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)
57 mins; March 23, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
61 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2022
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
54 mins; February 23, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; February 08, 2022
Sarah and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Tiller Press, 2021)
34 mins; December 23, 2021
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
75 hours 36 mins; December 02, 2021
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
67 hours 19 mins; November 22, 2021
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
31 mins; November 18, 2021
Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
42 mins; November 12, 2021
Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
71 hours 19 mins; November 08, 2021
Anthony Ianni, "Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams" (Red Lightning Books, 2021)
55 mins; November 02, 2021
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
61 hours 10 mins; October 22, 2021
Allyson Day, "The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
59 mins; October 15, 2021
Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 53 mins; September 28, 2021
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
64 hours 2 mins; September 22, 2021
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
102 hours 19 mins; September 09, 2021
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
48 mins; September 01, 2021
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
130 hours 8 mins; August 24, 2021
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
95 hours 50 mins; August 23, 2021
Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
68 hours 26 mins; August 16, 2021
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; July 21, 2021
Jane Gallop, "Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus" (Duke UP, 2019)
59 mins; June 28, 2021
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
89 hours 31 mins; June 09, 2021
Nate Holdren, "Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; June 03, 2021
Jeanne Simons and Sabine Oishi, "Behind the Mirror: The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
34 mins; June 01, 2021
Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson, "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice" (Oxford UP, 2018)
74 hours 0 mins; May 12, 2021
Michael D. Snediker, "Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
70 hours 26 mins; April 16, 2021
Dennis J. Frost, "More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
106 hours 55 mins; March 29, 2021
Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
65 hours 32 mins; March 12, 2021
C. L. Estes and N. B. DiCarlo, "Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology" (Routledge, 2019)
68 hours 31 mins; March 03, 2021
Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
63 hours 28 mins; February 17, 2021
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
61 hours 54 mins; December 23, 2020
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
70 hours 11 mins; December 22, 2020
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
61 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2020
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)
125 hours 56 mins; December 09, 2020
Rebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body" (HarperOne, 2020)
62 hours 45 mins; November 06, 2020
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
42 mins; November 06, 2020
David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports" (Center Street, 2020)
47 mins; October 28, 2020
Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace" (Teachers College Press, 2020)
43 mins; September 09, 2020
Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
56 mins; August 19, 2020
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
55 mins; July 24, 2020
Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Perspectives
30 mins; July 15, 2020
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
70 hours 5 mins; June 08, 2020
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
52 mins; April 06, 2020
Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
56 mins; March 23, 2020
Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society" (AK Press, 2019)
55 mins; February 26, 2020
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
25 mins; December 26, 2019
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
48 mins; December 05, 2019
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; May 27, 2019
Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor" (Duke UP, 2018)
52 mins; March 29, 2019
Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)
57 mins; February 07, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
42 mins; January 25, 2019
Shelley Tremain, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
34 mins; September 11, 2018
Julia Miele Rodas, “Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
105 hours 1 min; September 03, 2018
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