Journals publishing disability studies content include:
- Disability and Society
- Disability Studies Quarterly
- Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
- The Journal of Teaching Disability Studies
- Journal of Disability Policy Studies
A curated list of disability- and disability studies-related books follows.
Title | Author |
A Complaint is a Gift | Janelle Barlow and Claus Moller |
A Disability History of the United States | Kim E. Nielsen |
A History of Disability | Henri-Jacques Stiker |
A Journey into the Deaf-World | Harlan Lane |
Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions via Disability Studies | Jennifer Scuro with Devonya Havis and Lydia X.Z. Brown |
All the weight of Our Dreams: On living Racialized Autism | ed. Lydia X.Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy and Morenike Giwa Onawiu |
Assembly Required: Notes From a Deaf Gay Life | Raymond Luczak |
Becoming Real in 24 Days | HolLynn D’Lil |
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body | Lennard K. Davis |
Beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act | Mary Lee Vance, Neal E. Lipsitz, and Kaela Parks |
Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions | Christopher Bell |
Body, Remember, Anesthesia, Desert Walking, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, and in the Province of the Gods | Kenny Fries |
Bodyminds Reimagined | Sami Schalk |
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation | Eli Clare |
Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity | Simi Linton |
Coaching College Students with AD/HD: Issues and Answers | Patricia O. Quinn, Nancy A. Ratey, and Theresa L. Maitland |
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability | Robert McRuer |
Criptiques | ed. Caitin Wood |
Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity | Jeffrey Brune |
Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook | Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Brenda Jo Brueggemann |
Disability Bioethics | Jackie Leach Scully |
Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach | Autumn K. Wilke, Ellen M. Broido, Kristen R. Brown, and Nancy J. Evans |
Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970-1999 | Sharon Barnartt and Richard Scotch |
Disability Studies: A Student’s Guide | ed. Colin Cameron |
Disability Studies: An interdisciplinary Introduction | Dan Goodley |
Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities | ed. Sharon L.Snyder, Brenda Jo Bruggemann and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
Exceptional Children and Youth | Nancy Hunt, Kathleen Marshall |
Extraordinary Bodies | Rosemarie Garkland-Thomson |
Eyes of Desire | Raymond Luczak |
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History | Corbett Joan O’Toole |
Far from the Tree | Andrew Solomon |
Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: A Sourcebook for Practitioners | Christopher J. Alexander |
How Full is Your Bucket? | Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton |
Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach | V. Gregory Payne, Larry D. Isaacs |
Inside Deaf Culture and Deaf in America | Tom Humphries and Carol Padden |
Introduction to American Deaf Culture | Thomas K. Holcomb |
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology: volume 24, number 1 | Association for Applied Sport Psychology |
Journal of College Reading and Learning: Volume 39, Number 2 | College Reading and Learning Association |
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching: Volume 13, Number 1 | |
Keywords for Disability Studies | ed. David Serlin, Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss |
Look me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s | John Elder Robison |
Mermaid: A memoir of Resilience | Eileen Cronin |
Music, Disability, and Society | Alex Lubet |
My Body Politic and Calming Disability | Simi Linton |
Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education | James M. Jones, Laura T. Eisenman, and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum |
NeuroTribes (see videos) | Steve Silberman |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | Barbara Ehrenreich |
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement | Joseph P. Shaprio |
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability | ed. Devva Kasnitz, Pamela Block, Akemi Nishida and Nick Pollard |
On The Edge of Darkness | Kathy Cronkite |
Overcoming Depression | Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos |
Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum: Unexpected Lessons We have Learned | Maureen F. Morrell and Ann Palmer |
Planet of the Blind | Stephen Kuusisto |
Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture and Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability | Shelly Tremain |
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology | ed. Raymond Lucsak |
Reading for Diversity and Social Justice | Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Rosie Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga |
Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome | Ann Palmer |
Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence | ed. Andy J. Johnson, Ruth J. Nelson, and Emily Lund |
Ruderman White Papers | |
Sacred Cows Make the Burgers | Robert Kriegel and David Brandt |
Self-Efficacy: the Exercise of Control | Albert Bandura |
Sensing the Rhythm: Finding My Voice in a World Without Sound | Mandy Harvey |
Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq | Jess Goodell with John Hearn |
Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out | ed. Kenny Fries |
Strategic Diversity Leadership | Damon A. Williams |
Students with Asperger: A Guide for College Personnel | Lorraine E. Wolf, Jane Thierfeld Brown, and Ruth Kukiela Bork |
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression | Tracy Thompson |
The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics | Melinda Hall |
The Cancer Journals | Audre Lord |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
The Disability Studies Reader | ed. Lennard K. Davis |
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni |
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL | Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill |
The Servant | James C. Hunter |
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life | Harriet McBryde Johnson |
Train Go Sorry | Leah Hager Cohen |
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood | Paddy Ladd |
Unleash Your Greatness: Become a Person of Impact | Rick Olson & Robert J. Strand |
Whale Done! | Ken Blanchard |
Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson |