Disability Studies

Welcome to the Disability Studies guide! We've pulled together all kinds of resources that we think will be of interest for faculty and students who are interested in Disability Studies. We hope you find it useful!

          Moira Armstrong  ma2199@newark.rutgers.edu

          Natalie Borisovets  natalieb@libraries.rutgers.edu

Disability Studies Reader

Lennard J. Davis, editor. 5th edition. New York Routledge Publisher, 2017.

Essays on almost every aspect of disability studies. Rutgers-restricted Access

Keywords for Disability Studies

David Serlin, Benjamin Reiss, and Rachel Adams, editors. New York, New York University Press, 2015.

"Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including "ethics," "medicalization," "performance," "reproduction," "identity," and "stigma," among other." Rutgers-restricted Access

A Disability History of the United States

Kim E. Nielsen. Boston, Beacon Press, 2012. Available?

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public

Susan M Schweik. New York, New York University, 2009. Rutgers-restricted Access

Disability as a Social Construct : Legislative Roots

Chaire H. Liachowitz. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Rutgers-restricted Access

Accessible America a History of Disability and Design

Bess Williamson. New York, New York University Press, 2019. Available?

Walking Alone and Marching Together: A History of the Organized Blind Movement in the United States, 1940-1990

Floyd W. Matson. Baltimore, Md., National Federation of the Blind, 1990.