Books On Sociology Of Disability

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Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments
Book by by John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes, Carol Thomas
'This book would be a valuable resource to students of disability studies and to health and social care staff and other professionals who work with disabled people'- Disability and Rehabilitation.
Up-to-date accessible introductory text to the field of disability studies. In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, the revised edition has new chapters on: international issues, diversity among disabled people,  sexuality, bioethics.
Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45 short and engaging chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to disability issues.
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in disability studies, as well as disability courses in social work, education, health studies, sociology and social policy.

Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970-1999 - Book by Sharon N. Barnartt, Richard Scotch
Perhaps the photographs are the most interesting part of this book, because they communicate the human experience of the disability rights protests from 1970 through 1999. Sociologists Barnartt (Gallaudet Univ.) and Scotch (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) note that the statistics do not support the notion that disability protests were as widespread as media coverage might suggest, but the statistics do help readers grasp the complexity of this new minority group, “people with disabilities.” That is, cross-disability protests occurred only 28 percent of the time. Some protests arose out of separate cultural histories for particular disabilities. Good book for graduate students in political science, history, sociology, and disability studies.

The social model of disability "does not deny the problem of disability but locates it squarely within society. - Michael Oliver.

Fine, M. and Asch, A. 1988. Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Morris, J. 1991. Pride against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

Safford P. & Safford, E. 1995. A History of Childhood and Disability. NY: Teachers College Press.
Stone, Deborah. 1994. The Disabled State. Philadelphia. Temple University Press.
Turner, B. Disease and Disorder.
World Health Organization. Definitions of Disability and Handicap
Deegan, Mary Jo. Multiple minority groups: A case study of physically disabled women.
O.W. Stuart. Race and disability: Just a double oppression?
Begum, N. Disabled women and the feminist agenda.
Corbett, J. A "proud label": Exploring the relationship between disability politics and gay pride.
Lloyd, Margaret. 1992. Does she boil eggs? Towards a feminist model of disability.
Safford and Safford, A History of Childhood and Disability.
Biklen, D. & Duchan, J. "I am intelligent": The social construction of mental retardation.
Morris, J. Introduction; Chapter 1: Prejudice; Chapter 4: Disability in a Western Culture; Chapter 5: Segregation, Dependence, and Independence.
Nibert, D. The Political Economy of Developmental Disability.
Crawford, R. A cultural account of "health": Control release and the social body.
Farber, B. The mentally retarded as a surplus population. In Class Reader.
Stone, D. Introduction and Chapter 1. The Disabled State
Morris, J. Feminism and Disability.
Brown, H. An Ordinary Sexual Life?: A review of normalization as it applies to the sexual options of people with learning disabilities.
Asch, A. & Fine, M. Shared Dreams: A Left Perspective on Disability Rights and Reproductive Rights.
Hahn, H. Can Disability be beautiful? In Class Reader.
Hahn, H. Advertising the acceptably employable image: Disability and capitalism.
Scotch, R. Disability as a Basis for a Social Movement: Advocacy and the Politics of Self Definition.
Shakespeare, T. Disabled people's self-organization: A new social movement?
Oliver, M. The politics of disablement - Existing possibilities.

Anspach Renee R., 1979, Political Activism Among the Disabled and Mental Patients, in “Social Science and Medicine”, 13, pp.765-773.