Dowling College
Dr. Christian Perring
Berube, Michael. Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child. New York: Pantheon, 1996.
Cohen, Marion Deutsche. Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression. Ballantine, 1999.
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and The Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.
Finke, Beth. Long Time No See. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Groce, Nora Ellen. Everyone Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Kingsley, Jason and Mitchell Levitz. Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome. San Diego: Harvest, 1994.
Kunisto, Stephen. Planet of the Blind: A Memoir. New York: Dial Press, 1998.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Random House, 1997.
Mairs, Nancy. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Murphy, R. F. (1987). The body silent: An anthropologist embarks on the most challenging journey of his life: Into the world of the disabled. London and New York: W.W. Norton
Saxton, Marsha and Florence Howe. With Wings: An Anthology of Literature By and About Women with Disabilities. New York: The Feminist Press, 1987.
Schiller, Lori, The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness New York: Warner Books, 1996
Sechehaye, Marguerite, Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl. New York: New American Library, 1985.
Sheehan, Susan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? New York: Random House, 1983.
Sienkiewicz-Mercer, Ruth and Steven B. Kaplan. I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes. New York: Avon Books, 1989.
Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Vonnegut, Mark, Eden Express New York: Bantam, 1976
Williams, Donna. (1992). Nobody, nowhere: The extraordinary autobiography of an autistic. New York: Avon Books.
Williams, Donna. (1994). Somebody, somewhere: Breaking free from the world of autism. New York: Times Books.
Zola, Irving Kenneth. Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Adams, Rachel.Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Barnes, Colin, Geof Mercer, and Tom Shakespeare. Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999.
Baynton, Douglas, Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language, 1847-1920
Branson, Jan and Don Miller, Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled (Gallaudet University Press, 2002).
Buchanan, Robert. Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory,1850-1950 (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1999).
Carlson, Elof Axel. The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001.
Charlton, James. Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment (University of California Press, 1998)
Corrigan, Patrick, W. (Editor). On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2005.
Corker, Mairian and Tom Shakespeare. Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory. London: Continuum, 2002.
Davis, Leonard. Enforcing Normalcy : Disability, Deafness and the Body (Verso 1995).
Davis, Lennard J. Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism & Other Difficult Positions. New York: NYU Press, 2002.
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger. Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities (Chicago Series in Law and Society) University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
Feder Kittay, Eva. Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Feder Kittay, Eva & Ellen K. Feder (Editors). The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Fiedler, Leslie. Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self (1978).
Fleischer, Doris Zames and Frieda Zames. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
Francis, Leslie Pickering & Anita Silvers (Editors). Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Friedlander, Henry, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Hingsburger, Dave. First Contact: Charting Inner Space. Diverse City Press, 2000.
Jodelet, Denise. Madness and Social Representations: Living with the Mad in One French Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Koestler, Frances. The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in America, 1976.
Kuhl,Stefan, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism(Oxford University Press, 1994).
Ladd, Paddy. Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. Multilingual Matters Limited, 2003.
Lane, Harlan The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community Independent Publishers Group; (March 2000)
Larrabee, Mary Jeanne (Editor). An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Levine, Carol (Editor). Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers. New York: United Hospital Fund, 2000.
Linneman, D. R. (2001). Idiots: Stories about mindedness and mental retardation. New York: Peter Lang.
Longmore, Paul, Lauri Umansky, eds. The New Disability History: American Perspectives (History of Disability). (New York University Press, 2000).
Longmore, Paul, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (American Subjects) (Temple, 2003).
Louhiala, Pekka. Preventing Intellectual Disability: Ethical and Clinical Issues. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Lowenfeld, Berthold. The Changing Status of the Blind: From Separation to Integration, 1975.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.
Matson, Floyd. Walking Alone and Marching Together: A History of the Organized Blind Movement in the United States, 1940-1990 (Nat'l Federation of the Blind, 1990).
Martha Minow, Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law. Cornell University Press, 1991.
Mitchell, David T., and Sharon L. Snyder, eds., The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability in the Humanities (The Body, in Theory - Histories of Cultural Materialism)(University of Michigan Press, 1997). .
O'Brien, Ruth, Crippled Justice: Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Oliver, Michael. Politics of Disablement St. Martin's Press; (March 1997)
Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding disability: From theory to practice. New York: Palgrave.
Padden, Carol and Tom Humphries, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (Harvard University Press, 1988).
Parks, Jennifer A. No Place Like Home? Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Parens, Erik and Adrienne Asch (Editors). Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Pernick, Micheal The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915(Oxford University Press, 1996)
Potok, Andrew. A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled. New York: Bantam Books, 2002.
Rapley, Mark. The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Reilly, Phillip & Gerald N. Grob The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; (May 1991)
Reinders, Hans. (2000). The future of the disabled in liberal society: An ethical analysis. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Shakespeare, Tom. (Ed.). (1998). The disability reader: Social science perspectives. London and New York: Cassell.
Shakespeare, T., Gillespie-Sells, K., & Davies, D. (1996). The sexual politics of disability: Untold desires. London: Cassell Publications.
Joseph Shapiro, No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement, Three Rivers Press; (October 25, 1994)
Silvers, Anita, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald. Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Snyder, S. L., Brueggemann, B. J., & Garland-Thomson, R. (Eds.). (2002). Disability Studies: Enabling the humanities. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.
Stiker, H. (1999). A history of disability (W. Sayers, Trans.) [Corporealities: Discourses of Disability]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Original work published 1987).
John Swain, Sally French, Colin Cameron. Controversial Issues In A Disabling Society. Open University Press, 2003.
Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer. Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality. Georgetown University Press, 2003.
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies (Columbia University Press, 1997).
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (New York University Press, 1996).
Trent, James W. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Van Cleve, John and Barry Crouch, A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America (Gallaudet University Press, 1989).
Wahl, Otto F. Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Wendell, Susan. The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Willmuth, M., & Holcomb, L. (1994). Women with disabilities: Found voices. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc.
Twitch and Shout
http://www.blinddogfilms.com/twitchandshout/
Gaby (1987)
When Billy Broke His Head
http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/136_wbbhh.shtml
Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/230_vs.shtml
The Miracle Worker (1962)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Home of the Brave (1949)
A Little History Worth Knowing
Abandoned to their Fate (1997). http://www.pdassoc.com/attf.html
Bong and Donnell
Breathing Lessons (1996). http://www.pacificnews.org/marko/breathing-lessons.html
The Collector of Bedford Street
Disability Identity and Culture http://www.selfadvocacy.org/Module%20Five.htm
Educating Peter (1992).
Graduating Peter (2003). http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/graduating_peter/
Elling
Going to School-Ir a la Escuela (2001). http://richardcohenfilms.com/GoingtoSchool.htm
How’s Your News?
Hurry Tomorrow (1975). http://richardcohenfilms.com/hurry_tomorrow.html
If I Can’t Do It
In the Land of the Deaf (1993). http://www.alliancefrancaise.com.hk/events/fcp25/24.html
King Gimp (2000). http://www.kinggimp.com/flash.html
Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown
Living with Grace
Losing It
My Country
My Flesh and Blood (2003). http://chaikenfilms.com/Frameset(films).html
No Apologies (1994). http://www.lustydevil.com/fatgirl/wrycrips.html
Off Track
On the Road with Temple
Out of Sight
Patterns
People in Motion: Changing Ideas about People with Disabilities
Positive Images
Profoundly Normal
Rachael in Middle School
Rachael, Being Five
Refrigerator Moms
Regular Lives http://teacher.shop.pbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1407524
Selling Murder: The Killing Films of The Third Reich (1991). http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/handicapped/right.htm#film
Sound and Fury (2001). http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/
Stairway to Heaven
Tru Confessions
Us and Them
Waiting for Ronald
Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace
Titicut Follies (1967). http://www.subcin.com/titicut.html