Reading List:  Disabilities Studies/Culture  Prepared by Marjorie McGee, April 2007

Adkins, W. (2003). The social construction of disability: A theoretical perspective. Paper presented at the Conference Papers -- American Sociological Association.

Bricher, G. (2000). Disabled People, Health Professionals and the Social Model of Disability: can there be a research relationship? Disability & Society, 15(5), 781-793.

Danermark, B., & Gellerstedt, L. C. (2004). Social justice: redistribution and recognition--a non-reductionist perspective on disability. Disability & Society, 19(4), 339-353.

Deal, M. (2007). Aversive disablism: subtle prejudice toward disabled people. Disability & Society, 22(1), 93-107.

Donoghue, C. (2003). Challenging the authority of the medical definition of disability: An analysis of the resistance to the social constructionist paradigm. Disability & Society, 18(2), 199.

Frank, G. (1988). Beyond Stigma: Visibility and Self-Empowerment of Persons with Congenital Limb Deficiencies. Journal of Social Issues, 44(1), 95-115.

Gabel, S., & Peters, S. (2004). Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability. Disability & Society, 19(6), 585-600.

Gill, C. J. (1999). Invisible ubiquity: The surprising relevance of disability issues in evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation, 20(2), 279.

Gordon, B. O., & Rosenblum, K. E. (2001). Bringing Disability into the Sociological Frame: a comparison of disability with race, sex, and sexual orientation statuses. Disability & Society, 16(1), 5-19.

Goto, Y. (2005). Destabilizing the Categorization of Able/Disabled Body: A New Objective for Disability Studies. (English). Japanese Sociological Review -- Shakaigaku Hyoron, 55(4), 400-417.

McDermott, R., & Varenne, H. (1995). Culture as disability. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 26(3), 324.

Meekosha, H. (2004). Drifting down the Gulf Stream: navigating the cultures of disability studies. Disability & Society, 19(7), 721-733.

Peters, S. (2000). Is there a disability culture? A syncretisation of three possible world views. Disability & Society, 15(4), 583-601.

Petersen, A. (2006). An African American woman with disabilities: The intersection of gender, race and disability. Disability & Society, 21(7), 721-734.

Scotch, R. K., & Schriner, K. (1997). Disability as human variation: Implications for policy: American Academy of Political & Social Sciences.

Shakespeare, T. (2006). Disability rights and wrongs. New York: Routledge.

Ziebland, S., Fitzpatrick, R., & Jenkinson, C. (1993). Tacit models of disability underlying health status instruments. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 37(1), 69-75.