Readings in Disability Studies: (many of these can be found on a course reserve in Magill Library, Haverford College; see: English Department Colloquium (HC))

 

Rachel Adams, Sideshow USA: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, U of Chicago Press, 2001.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, Columbia UP, 1997.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, ed. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, NYU Press, 1997. See Rachel Adams, "An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.

Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, eds., Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, MLA Press, 2002. (contains an essay by Martha Stoddard Holmes)

James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, eds. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. (contains an essay by Martha Stoddard-Holmes)

David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse, U. of Michigan Press, 2000.

David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, eds., The Body and Physical Difference, U. of Michigan Press, 1997. See Lennard J. Davis, "Nude Venuses, Medusa's Body, and Phantom Limbs: Disability and Visuality".

Helen Deutsch and Felicity Nussbaum, eds., Defects: Engendering the Modern Body, U. of Michigan Press, 2000.

Lennard J. David, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, Verso 1995.

Lennard J. Davis, ed., The Disability Studies Reader, Routledge, 1996.

Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds., The New Disability History: American Perspectives, NYU Press, 2001. See Hannah Joiner, "this Unnatural and Fratricidal Strife": A Family's Negotiation of the Civil War, Deafness and Independence".

Kenny Fries, ed., Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out, Plume (Penguin), 1997.

Nancy Mairs, Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, Beacon Press, 1996.

Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, NYU Press, 1998.