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1. Cover image for 'The Staff of Oedipus'
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Martha L. Rose
Exposes centuries-old disability myths that still survive today
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Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Martha L. Rose
Exposes centuries-old disability myths that still survive today
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Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Martha L. Rose
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2. Cover image for 'Acts of Conspicuous Compassion'
Performance Culture and American Charity Practices
Sheila C. Moeschen

Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

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Performance Culture and American Charity Practices
Sheila C. Moeschen
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3. Cover image for 'The End of Normal'
Identity in a Biocultural Era
Lennard J. Davis

Provocative essays that challenge notions of the “normal” in the new century

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Identity in a Biocultural Era
Lennard J. Davis

Provocative essays that challenge notions of the “normal” in the new century

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Identity in a Biocultural Era
Lennard J. Davis
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4. Cover image for 'The Metanarrative of Blindness'
A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing
David Bolt

Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective

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A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing
David Bolt
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Popular Music and Disability
George McKay

A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability

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Popular Music and Disability
George McKay

A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability

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Popular Music and Disability
George McKay
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The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Mary K. DeShazer

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

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The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Mary K. DeShazer
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7. Cover image for 'Disabled Veterans in History'
Enlarged and Revised Edition
David A. Gerber, Editor
The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan
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Enlarged and Revised, Afterword by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.
David A. Gerber, Editor
Examines the injuries of military service across time and Western cultures
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8. Cover image for 'Mad at School'
Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Margaret Price
Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education
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Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Margaret Price
Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education
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Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Margaret Price
Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education
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9. Cover image for 'Viral Mothers'
Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Bernice L. Hausman
Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises
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Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Bernice L. Hausman
Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises
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10. Cover image for 'Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind'
Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Edward Wheatley

Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability

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11. Cover image for 'Disability Aesthetics'
Tobin Siebers
Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments
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Tobin Siebers
Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments
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12. Cover image for 'Signifying Bodies'
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

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Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

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13. Cover image for 'The Songs of Blind Folk'
African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
Terry Rowden

How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years

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African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
Terry Rowden

How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years

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14. Cover image for 'The Accidental Teacher'
Life Lessons from My Silent Son
An Autism Memoir
Annie Lubliner Lehmann

A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism

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Life Lessons from My Silent Son
An Autism Memoir
Annie Lubliner Lehmann

A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism

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Life Lessons from My Silent Son
An Autism Memoir
Annie Lubliner Lehmann

A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism

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15. Cover image for 'Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture'
Carol Poore

A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany

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Carol Poore

A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany

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15. Cover image for 'Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture'
Carol Poore

A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany

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16. Cover image for 'Fictions of Affliction'
Physical Disability in Victorian Culture
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain
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Physical Disability in Victorian Culture
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain
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17. Cover image for 'Disability Theory'
Tobin Siebers
Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies
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Tobin Siebers
Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies
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18. Cover image for 'Concerto for the Left Hand'
Disability and the Defamiliar Body
Michael Davidson
A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of  art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir
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Disability and the Defamiliar Body
Davidson, Michael
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Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
Marcy Epstein and Travar Pettway, Editors
Essays plumbing the depths of life with spinal cord injury
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Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
Marcy Epstein and Travar Pettway, Editors
Essays plumbing the depths of life with spinal cord injury
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20. Cover image for 'My Body Politic'
A Memoir
Simi Linton
An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism
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A Memoir
Simi Linton
An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism
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21. Cover image for 'Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry'
The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Bradley Lewis
A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge
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The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Bradley Lewis
A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge
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22. Cover image for 'Fractured Borders'
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Mary K. DeShazer
Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing
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Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Mary K. DeShazer
Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing
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23. Cover image for 'Bodies in Commotion'
Disability and Performance
Edited by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
The first collection to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity
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Disability and Performance
Edited by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
The first collection to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity
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24. Cover image for 'Foucault and the Government of Disability'
Shelley Tremain, Editor

A stimulating collection of fresh insights into Foucault and disability

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Shelley Tremain, Editor

A stimulating collection of fresh insights into Foucault and disability

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Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
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