Disability

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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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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
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

Elsa Sjunneson

256 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma

288 pages • 2019 • 10 editions

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

80 pages • 2019 • 17 editions

fiction poetry politics dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Melanie Yergeau

312 pages • 2017 • 3 editions

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced