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15 participants (104 books)

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

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The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community by Harlan Lane

The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community

Harlan Lane

329 pages • 1992 • 3 editions

nonfiction sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Inside Deaf Culture by Carol Padden, Tom Humphries

Inside Deaf Culture

Carol Padden, Tom Humphries

208 pages • 2005 • 2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness by Katie Booth

The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness

Katie Booth

402 pages • 6 editions

nonfiction autobiography biography history science technology
Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb

Introduction to American Deaf Culture

Thomas K. Holcomb

384 pages • 2012 • 2 editions

nonfiction education sociology emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

Jaipreet Virdi

328 pages • 2020 • 3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis

Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

Lennard J. Davis

228 pages • 1995 • 2 editions

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture by Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries

Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture

Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries

144 pages • 4 editions

nonfiction politics sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love by Myron Uhlberg

Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love

Myron Uhlberg

232 pages • 2009 • 3 editions

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir emotional funny medium-paced
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

Nora Ellen Groce

184 pages • 1985 • 2 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

Leah Hager Cohen

320 pages • 1994 • 3 editions

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced