Research Guides: What Can a Body Do? (First Year Read, 2024): INTRODUCTION: Disability Studies

Introduction

Project

OLIN COLLEGE ADAPTATION + ABILITY GROUP

Alterpodium with Amanda Cachia (Olin College, 2014)
The project website for the collaboration with artist Amanda Cachia to design a podium that met her needs, including more about Amanda, the initial designs, the process, and the finished product.
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Image: Amanda’s collapsible, lightweight carbon fiber podium: provisional interior architecture for short stature.

Disability Studies Scholars

Authors mentioned in What Can a Body Do? and some examples of their work from the Library's collections and beyond.

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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

BOOKS

Extraordinary Bodies by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780231544771
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780199716760
Publication Date: 2009-01-01

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept (R. Garland-Thomson, 2011)
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Garland-Thomson, R. (2011). Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept. Hypatia, 26(3), 591–609. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01206.x

Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780253005182
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Chapter: Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Alison Kafer

Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780253005182
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Debating feminist futures: slippery slopes, cultural anxiety, and the case of the deaf lesbians, by Alison Kafer

Katherine Ott

Since all useful technology is assistive, it is peculiar that we stipulate that some devices are assistive while others need no qualification
(K. Ott, quoted in What Can a Body Do?, p. 25f)

BOOKS

Artificial Parts, Practical Lives by Katherine Ott (Editor); David Serlin (Editor); Stephen Mihm (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780814762431
Publication Date: 2002-03-11
Keywords for Disability Studies by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin (editors)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781479812141
Publication Date: 2015
Chapter: Prosthetics by Katherine Ott

ARTICLES

All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (K. Ott, 1999)
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Ott, K. (1999). All the modern conveniences: American household plumbing, 1840-1890. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 73(2), 336–338. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.1999.0070
Disability and the Practice of Public History: An Introduction (K. Ott, 2005)
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Ott, K. (2005). Disability and the practice of public history: an introduction. The Public Historian, 27(2), 11–24.

Ellen Samuels

BOOK

Fantasies of Identification by Ellen Samuels
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781479855049
Publication Date: 2014-01-01

CHAPTERS

Crip Authorship: Disability as Method by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (editors)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781479819386
Publication Date: 2023
Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Crip Autotheory by Ellen Samuels
Disability Media Studies by Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick (editors)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781479802340
Publication Date: 2017
Prosthetic Heroes: Curing Disabled Veterans in Iron Man 3 and Beyond by Ellen Samuels
Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780253005182
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Critical divides: Judith Butler's body theory and the question of disability, by Ellen Samuels
Keywords for Disability Studies by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin (editors)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781479812141
Publication Date: 2015
Passing by Ellen Samuels