Disability Studies: suggested readings

Shelley Tremain has provided this as an introductory bibliography to Disability Studies. It's not a comprehensive bibliography, nor is it directly solely to philosophers. Please use it as an invitation to contribute other suggestions in comments. 

We're adding "Disability Studies" to our category list, and welcome suggestions for posts, conference announcements, CFPs, and so on. We also welcome suggestions for the Count Me In campaign, which also has a category now.

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Lennard Davis, ed. 2010. The Disability Studies Reader (3rd edition).  Routledge. The three editions of this multi-disciplinary reader are somewhat different from each other, but each contains a good selection of some of the most important articles and book chapters in the field of Disability Studies internationally.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson.  1996.  Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Culture and Literature.   Columbia University Press. Garland Thomson is one of the leading figures in American disability studies.  The book explains some of the ideas foundational to American disability studies and considers how disability has been represented and socially constituted.

Michael Oliver.  1990.  The Politics of Disablement.  McMillan Educational Press. This book, written by a social scientist, is regarded as one of the foundational texts of Disability Studies in the U.K. especially.  The book explains and defends the earliest versions of the British “social model of disability” which is grounded in historical materialism.

Tobin Siebers.  2008.   Disability Theory.  University of Michigan Press. Written by a prominent American disability theorist, this book demonstrates that a disability studies perspective is relevant to, yet usually left out of, academic accounts of a range of issues and topics including sexuality, identity, the body, social justice, feminism, architectural design, literature, etc.

Henri Stiker.  1999.  A History of Disability.  University of Michigan Press. This book, originally written in French, offers an historical account of how disability has been represented in literature, philosophical texts, religious doctrines, popular discourse, and so on. 

Shelley Tremain, ed. 2005. Foucault and the Government of Disability.   University of Michigan Press.This multi-disciplinary collection is comprised of chapters that assess the usefulness of Foucault’s analyses and techniques for work in disability studies and disability activism.  

In comments, Jon Rubin recommends a Zotero-readable format for the bibliography. I don't know what that is, or if I've succeeded here, but here goes:

 

Davis, Lennard J., ed. 2010. The disability studies reader. 3rd ed. London: Routledge.

Oliver, Michael. 1990. The politics of disablement. London: Macmillan Education.

Siebers, Tobin. 2008. Disability theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Stiker, Henri-Jacques. 1999. A history of disability. Trans. William. Sayers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. 1997. Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York: Columbia University Press.

Tremain, Shelley. 2005. Foucault and the government of disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.