Disabilities in Literature
A sampling of literary works focused on the spectrum and intersectionality of disability, ableism and the ADA available at Penn State University Libraries.
- Ableist rhetoric: How we know, value, and see disability, by James L. Cherney, 2019
- Accessing the Future: A Disability-themed Speculative Fiction Anthology, edited by Kathryn Allen & Djibril al-Ayad, 2015
- ADA in Details: Interpreting the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design, by Janis Kent, 2017
- Cursed, by Karol Ruth Silverstein, 2019
- The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act, by Ruth Colker 2007
- Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Issues in law, public policy, and research, edited by Peter David Blanck, 2000
- How We Roll, by Natasha Friend, 2018
- Imperfect: An Improbable Life, by Jim Abbott & Tim, 2012
- Issues and Approaches to art for students with special needs, edited by Andra L. Nyman & Anne M. Jenkins, 1999
- Just Breath, by Cammie McGovern, 2020
- Meet Me in Outer Space, by Melinda Grace, 2019
- Past due : a story of disability, pregnancy, and birth, by Anne Finger, 1990
- Restricted access: lesbians on disability, edited by Victoria A. Brownworth & Susan Raffo, 1999
- This is Kind of an Epic Love Story, by Kheryn Callender, 2018
- To Separate the Body From the Machine, by Beldan Sezan, 2015
- Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, edited by Marieke Nijkamp, 2018
- Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, edited by Scott T. Smith & José Alaniz, 2019
- Vulnerability and Human Rights, by Bryan S. Turner, 2006
- Wheelchair Champions: A history of wheelchair sports, by Harriet May Savitz, 1978
- Where Dreams Come True, by Linda Lee Ratto, 2004
- Wild and Crooked, by Leah Thomas, 2019
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Image: Cover art for Accessing the Future, illustration by Robin E. Kaplan