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Philosophy of disability reading list (by AH Rheaume)

On Twitter, A.H. Rheaume shared the following reading list in philosophy of disability and Crip theory, and kindly offered to allow me to share it here:

  • Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer
  • Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe by Dagmar Herzog
  • The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
  • Disability and Difference in Global Contexts by N. Erevelles
  • Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson
  • Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie
  • The Capacity Contract by Stacy Simplican
  • The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflection on Disability by Susan Wendell
  • The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
  • Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
  • Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage
  • Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis
  • Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
  • Disability Rhetoric by Jay Timothy Dolmage 
  • Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability by Nario-Redmond
  • Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea by Eunjung Kim
  • Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
  • Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness by Bruce M.Z. Cohen
  • Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory, edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara
  • Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation by Elizabeth Ellcessor
  • Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self by Margrit Shildrick
  • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
  • The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes
  • Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education, edited by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh
  • Phenomenology of Illness by Havi Carel
  • Treatments by Lisa Diedrich
  • Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
  • Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity by Jeffrey A. Brune
  • Sex and Disability, edited by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow
  • Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
  • Not strictly about disability but important concepts in the discussion:

    • I hope readers find Rheaume's list helpful, and please do feel free to add suggestions in the comments section!

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    One response to “Philosophy of disability reading list (by AH Rheaume)”

    1. open sesame

      Thank you for the list! It’s really helpful.
      But I find some other works that should be included in the list.
      “Doing ethics from experience: Pragmatic suggestions for a feminist disability advocate’s response to prenatal diagnosis” by Joseph Stramondo
      “The complicated relationship of disability and well-being” by Stephen Campbell and Joseph Stramondo.

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