Author: Jasbir K. Paur
Published: November 3, 2017
ISBN: 822369184
ISBN13: 9780822369189
Pages: 296
“In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking
work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our
understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical
and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of
“debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and
political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how
debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage
that states use to control populations. Puar’s analysis culminates in an
interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which she
outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by
designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill
with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on
liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass
debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability’s interaction
with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of
Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the
intersection of imperialism and racialized capital.” – Duke University Press
Author: Kim E. Nielsen
Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 807022047
ISBN13: 9780807022047
Pages: 240
“Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is
the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at
the center of the American narrative. Throughout the book, historian and
disability scholar Kim E. Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of
disability have deeply shaped the American experience—from deciding who
was allowed to immigrate and establishing labor laws to justifying
slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing—at times
horrific—narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women
being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of
disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists
picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally
reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master
narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.” – Beacon Press
Authors: Eli Clare, Dean Spade (Afterword), Aurora Levins Morales (Foreword)
Published: August 7, 2015
ISBN: 822360314
ISBN13: 9780822360315
Pages: 216
“First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is
essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare’s
revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled
genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading
writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently
changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With
a poet’s devotion to truth and an activist’s demand for justice, Clare
deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving
sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and
political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as
place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find
an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with
the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root
of Clare’s exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism,
sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a
call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone.
With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.” – Duke University Press
Authors: Doris Fleischer, Freida Zames
Published: June 3, 2011
ISBN: 1439907447
ISBN13: 9781439907443
Pages: 360
“In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames
expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights
in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights
activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for
cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of
disability.
The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as
deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide,
employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and
disability culture.
Based on interviews with over one hundred activists, The Disability Rights Movement tells
a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to
create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with
disabilities.”– Project Muse
Author: Melanie Yergeau
Published: January 15, 2018
ISBN: 822370204
ISBN13: 9780822370208
Pages: 312
“In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines
neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment.
Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny
autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves
while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification
of the neurological passivity of autistics. She also critiques early
intensive behavioral interventions—which have much in common with gay
conversion therapy—and questions the ableist privileging of
intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. Using storying as
her method, she presents an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by
foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by
framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the
best-equipped people to define their experience. Contending that autism
represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects
the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic people queer the lines of
rhetoric, humanity, and agency. In so doing, she demonstrates how an
autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric’s very
essence.” – Duke University Press
Author: Susan Wendell
Published: July 4, 1996
ISBN: 415910471
ISBN13: 9780415910477
Pages: 214
“The Rejected Body argues that feminist
theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the
knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist
ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and
social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who
should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical,
social or both; what causes disability and what could ‘cure’ it; and
whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions
are morally justified.
Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards
the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread
unwillingness to accept and provide for the body’s inevitable
weakness.” – Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Author: Nancy Mairs
Published: December 22, 1997
ISBN: 807070874
ISBN13: 9780807070871
Pages: 224
“In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs
takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its
effect on life, work, and spirit.” – Beacon Press
