LibGuides: Accessibility and Disability Studies: Recommended reading

Introduction

Below is a selection of books on accessibility and disability at the MSU Libraries. The purpose of this list is to provide quick access to exemplary books in this field and serve as a starting point for further exploration across multiple topics and disciplines within Accessibility and Disability Studies. Please note that this is not a definitive list and that topics are not mutually exclusive.

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Where to find books, by call number, in the MSU Libraries.

Arts & humanities

Accessible America by Bess Williamson
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781479894093
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Provides insight into everyday design as it relates to accessibility needs.
Broken Beauty by Joseph N. Straus
Call Number: ML3877 .S77 2018 (in Music Library)
ISBN: 0190871202
Publication Date: 2018-10-08
Argues that the most characteristic features of musical modernism can be understood as musical depictions of disability conditions, including deformity/disfigurement, mobility impairment, madness, idiocy, and autism.
Cultures of Representation by Benjamin Fraser (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780231177498
Publication Date: 2016-03-08
Explores the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe.
Disability and Art History by Ann Millett-Gallant (Editor); Elizabeth Howie (Editor)
Call Number: N8236.P4 D57 2017 (in Art Library)
ISBN: 1472453522
Publication Date: 2016-10-24
Explores the interdisciplinary nature of art history and disability studies scholarship.
Disability and World Religions by Darla Y. Schumm (Editor); Michael Stoltzfus (Editor)
Call Number: BL65.B63 D573 2016 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781481305228
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Explores contemporary debates about religion and disability including personhood, autonomy, community, ability, transcendence, morality, practice, and the interpretation of texts.
Disability in Antiquity by Christian Laes (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781317231530
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Examines deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. Includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia.
Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives by Chris Foss (Editor); Jonathan W. Gray (Editor); Zach Whalen (Editor)
Call Number: PN6714 .D57 2016 (in Special Collections)
ISBN: 9781137501103
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Explores disability in comics.
Disability Studies and the Classical Body by Ellen Adams (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780429273711
Publication Date: 2021-05-13
Argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' within the classics and the humanities.
Reframing Disability in Manga by Yoshiko Okuyama
Call Number: PN6790.J3 O38 2020 (in Main Library and Special Collections)
ISBN: 9780824882365
Publication Date: 2020-05-31
Analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society.
Uncanny Bodies by Scott T. Smith (Editor); José Alaniz (Editor)
Call Number: PN6714 .U63 2019 (in Main Library and Special Collections)
ISBN: 9780271084749
Publication Date: 2019-11-27
Essays on how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world.

Education & empowerment

Ableism in Academia by Nicole Brown (Editor); Jennifer Leigh (Editor)
Call Number: LB2333.5 .A35 2020 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 1787354989
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism through research data and exploring personal experiences.
Academic Ableism by Jay T. Dolmage
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780472123414
Publication Date: 2017-11-22
Explores the ways that disability is interpreted and acted upon within higher education.
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
Call Number: HV3011 .L33 2021 (in Main Library - Reserve)
ISBN: 9781984858979
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do).
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (Editor)
Call Number: ebook + HV1552.3 .D57 2020 (print version in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781984899422
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
Explores the experience of life as an individual with disabilities as told by disabled authors.
The Diversity Style Guide by Rachele Kanigel
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781119054917
Publication Date: 2018-11-02
Helps writers write with authority and accuracy about a complex, multicultural world.
Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities by Margo Izzo; Lederick Horne
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781598577358
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Aims to help students with non-visible disabilities unlock their full potential. Told through the voices of adults with non-visible disabilities.
Giving Voice to Profound Disability by John Vorhaus
Call Number: HV1568 .V67 2016 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780415731638
Publication Date: 2015-07-10
Explores the lives of people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities and the rewards and challenges of living with, supporting, and teaching this population.
Imagination for Inclusion by Derek Bland (Editor)
Call Number: LB1062 .I398 2016 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781138915985
Publication Date: 2016-02-26
Reconsiders the ways that imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum.
Inclusion, Disability and Culture by Elsayed Elshabrawy Ahmad Hassanein
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9789462099210
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Examines the theoretical and empirical complexities of inclusion, disability, and culture.
Keywords for Disability Studies by Rachel Adams (Editor); Benjamin Reiss (Editor); David Serlin (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781479841158
Publication Date: 2015-08-14
Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories related to disability studies.

Gender & sexuality

Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health by Kristen Faye Linton; Heidi Adams Rueda; Lela Rankin Williams
Call Number: ebook + HQ30.5 .L56 2017 (print version in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780871015228
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Explores the complicated intersection of disability and sexuality from a social worker's perspective.
Disability and masculinities: Corporeality, pedagogy and the critique of otherness by Cassandra Loeser, Vicki Crowley, Barbara Pini (Editors)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781137534774
Publication Date: 2017
Explores masculinity and disability as a site of cultural pedagogy.
Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780253356628
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Addresses the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labeled disabled, and the norms of mental and physical ability are defined.
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics by Jina B. Kim (Editor); Joshua Kupetz (Editor); Crystal Yin Lie (Editor); Cynthia Wu (Editor)
Call Number: HV1658.2 .S49 2021 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780472128808
Publication Date: 2021-10-18
The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of - and one of the most prominent thinkers in - the field of disability studies. Uses Siebers' work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies.
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging by Jane Gallop
Call Number: HQ30.5 .G35 2019
ISBN: 1478001267
Publication Date: 2019-01-11
Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self.
Sport and the Female Disabled Body by Elisabet Apelmo
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781472455147
Publication Date: 2016-10-14
Analyzes the experiences of young female athletes with physical impairments.

Literary criticism & media studies

Bodies of Modernism by Maren Linett
Call Number: ebook + PR830.M63 L56 2017 (print version in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780472122486
Publication Date: 2016-12-05
Offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers that focus on mobility impairments, deafness, blindness, and deformity.
Disability, Literature, Genre by Ria Cheyne
Call Number: ebook + PN56.D553 C44 2019 (print version in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781789620771
Publication Date: 2019-12-06
Examines the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s.
Disability and the Media by Katie Ellis; Gerard Goggin
Call Number: HV1568 .E4453 2015 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780230293205
Publication Date: 2017-01-23
Explores how disability is a pervasive issue in the media's representation of society.
Elusive Kinship by Christopher Krentz
Call Number: PN56.D553 K74 2022 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781439922224
Publication Date: 2022-04-22
Explores postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability.
Embodying Difference by Simon Dickel
Call Number: PN49 .D53 2022 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9783030901066
Publication Date: 2022-01-09
Explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies.
Extraordinary Bodies by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780231183161
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Explores the social forces driving representations of disability and new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body.
The Fantasy of Disability by Jeffrey Preston
Call Number: HV1568 .P74 2017 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 1472467965
Publication Date: 2016-07-26
Explores how popular culture fantasizes what life with a physical disability must be like while pressuring disabled individuals to conform their identity and behavior to fit these archetypes.
From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families by Abbye E. Meyer
Call Number: PN56.5.H35 M49 2022 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781496837561
Publication Date: 2022-02-04
Examines different ways authors use and portray disability in young adult narratives.

Sociology & employment

Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell; Keith Rosenthal (Editor)
Call Number: ebook + HV1553 .R873 2019 (print version in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781608466863
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Essays by late author and activist Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781551527383
Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Written by a disability justice activist and performance artist. Explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people.
Crippled Justice by Ruth O'Brien
Call Number: HD7256.U5 O27 2001 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 0226616606
Publication Date: 2001-10-15
Explores why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been resistant to accommodating the disabled in the workplace.
Crip Times by Robert McRuer
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781479826315
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Argues that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics.
Defining the Boundaries of Disability by Licia Carlson (Editor); Matthew C. Murray (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780367855086
Publication Date: 2021-03-07
Challenge particular conceptions of disability, expands the meaning and significance of the term, and considers the implications of claiming disability as an identity.
Disability and Employer Practices by Susanne M. Bruyère (Editor)
Call Number: ebook + HD7256.U5 D577 2016 (print version in Business Library)
ISBN: 9781501700583
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Explores employment issues that people with disabilities in the U.S. face.
Disability Incarcerated by Allison C. Carey (Editor); Liat Ben-Moshe (Editor); Chris Chapman (Editor); Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
Call Number: HV1568 .D5688 2014 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9781137404053
Publication Date: 2014-05-29
Argues that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration.
Disability Servitude by Ruthie-Marie Beckwith
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781137540300
Publication Date: 2016-01-09
Traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage and the exploitation of workers with disabilities.
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Sarah Jaquette Ray (Editor); Jay Sibara (Editor); Stacy Alaimo (Foreword by)
Call Number: HV1568.2 .D573 2017 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 0803278454
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine disability and slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, and ableism. Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Disability with Dignity by Linda Barclay
Call Number: HV1568 .B334 2019 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 1138498068
Publication Date: 2018-08-03
Discusses how philosophical approaches to distributive justice and human rights can support people with disabilities.
DisCrit by David J. Connor (Editor); Beth A. Ferri (Editor); Subini A. Annamma (Editor)
Call Number: LC4031 .D57 2016 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 9780807756683
Publication Date: 2015-12-30
Examines the achievement and opportunity gaps from historical and contemporary perspectives and the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and school-to-prison pipeline.
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability by Pamela Block (Editor); Devva Kasnitz (Editor); Akemi Nishida (Editor); Nick Pollard (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9789401799843
Publication Date: 2015-09-03
Explores the concept of "occupation" in disability and considers disability as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers.
Promoting Successful Transition to Adulthood for Students with Disabilities by Robert L. Morgan; Tim Riesen
Call Number: LC4031 .M648 2016 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 1462524133
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Provides guidelines for team-based transition planning for individuals with various levels of disability.
Rights Enabled by Katharina Heyer
Call Number: HV1568 .H49 2015 (in Main Library)
ISBN: 0472052470
Publication Date: 2015-05-30
Examines three case studies in Germany, Japan, and the United Nations to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the U.S., adaptations in other democracies, and current formulation in international law.

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