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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Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract by Marta Russell

Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

Marta Russell

256 pages • 1998 • 1 edition

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy

The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

Kyleigh Leddy

304 pages • 2022 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

352 pages • 2022 • 5 editions

nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

Walela Nehanda

6h 15m • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir poetry young adult emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

384 pages • 2011 • 5 editions

nonfiction history psychology science dark informative medium-paced
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi

Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors

Lisa Appignanesi

535 pages • 2007 • 10 editions

nonfiction feminism history psychology informative inspiring slow-paced
Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Gregory J. Dober, Judith Lynn Newman, Allen M. Hornblum

Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America

Gregory J. Dober, Judith Lynn Newman, Allen M. Hornblum

288 pages • 2013 • 1 edition

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Alisa Roth

320 pages • 2018 • 8 editions

nonfiction politics psychology dark informative sad medium-paced
When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane

When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf

Harlan Lane

560 pages • 1984 • 6 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
A Journey Into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane

A Journey Into the Deaf-World

Harlan Lane

560 pages • 1996 • 3 editions

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced