Disability Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newDisability.xml New Disability Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life | by Margaret Price, Foreword by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1612837 Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS | by Bernice L. Hausman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=194329 Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability | by Edward Wheatley http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915892 Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability. The Accidental Teacher: Life Lessons from My Silent Son | by Annie Lubliner Lehmann http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1403971 A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism. The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness | by Terry Rowden http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232221 How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years. Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture | by Carol Poore http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=223254 A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany. Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing | by G. Thomas Couser http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915367 Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability? Disability Aesthetics | by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1134097 Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments.