Disability

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15 participants (104 books)

Overview

Disability history, critical disability theory, and disability justice. 90 books for 1990: the year of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt

Tessa Miller

320 pages • 2021 • 7 editions

nonfiction health memoir emotional sad medium-paced
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

256 pages • 2020 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Alice Wong

369 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

nonfiction essays health politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

96 pages • 1980 • 20 editions

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller by Kim E. Nielsen

History of Disability

The Radical Lives of Helen Keller

Kim E. Nielsen

193 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction autobiography biography challenging reflective medium-paced
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer

Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

Robert McRuer

320 pages • 2018 • 3 editions

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights by

Corporealities

Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights

408 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction reference sociology
Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader by Diane Driedger

Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

Diane Driedger

452 pages • 2021 • 1 edition

nonfiction feminism sociology
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson

Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life

Harriet McBryde Johnson

272 pages • 2005 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth by Polly Atkin

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

Polly Atkin

288 pages • 2021 • 2 editions

nonfiction biography informative slow-paced