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New Books in Disability Studies

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Sami Schalk, “Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” (Duke UP, 2018)

33 mins; June 12, 2018

John J. Pitney, “The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)

50 mins; May 08, 2018

David Wanczyk, “Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind” (Swallow Press, 2018)

42 mins; May 03, 2018

Aimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)

44 mins; April 25, 2018

Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)

50 mins; March 28, 2018

Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)

87 hours 48 mins; January 29, 2018

Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)

44 mins; December 14, 2017

Leigh Straw, “After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I” (UWA Publishing, 2017)

15 mins; October 13, 2017

Gareth M. Thomas, “Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic” (Routledge, 2017)

42 mins; August 15, 2017

Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)

70 hours 25 mins; January 03, 2017

Claudia Malacrida, “A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Albertas Eugenic Years” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)

55 mins; December 29, 2016

Carol Gignoux, “Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD” (Balboa Press, 2016)

63 hours 12 mins; August 26, 2016

John M. Kinder, “Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

78 hours 18 mins; December 18, 2015

Katie Ellis, “Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance” (Ashgate, 2015)

37 mins; November 08, 2015

Andrea Louise Campbell, “Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

23 mins; October 13, 2014

David Wright, “Downs: The History of a Disability” (Oxford UP, 2011)

59 mins; September 30, 2014

Dale Maharidge, “Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War” (Public Affairs, 2013)

71 hours 43 mins; July 03, 2013

Neil Smith, et al., “The Signs of a Savant: Language Against the Odds” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

54 mins; November 15, 2011

Jeffrey Reznick, “John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War” (Manchester UP, 2009)

58 mins; May 18, 2010

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