Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
By: Ria Cheyne
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science ficti…
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1. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.88
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more
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"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
2. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
By: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
3.87
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twin… read more
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3. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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4. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
By: Henry Jenkins
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and c… read more
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5. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
6. Female Masculinity
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of… read more
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7. Feminist, Queer, Crip
By: None
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Feminist, Queer, CripAlison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies… read more
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8. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… read more
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9. The Disability Studies Reader
By: Lennard J. Davis , None
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Disability Studies Readercollects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emer… read more
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10. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
By: Barry Keith Grant
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
1. When the Woman Looks. Linda Williams. 2. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: an imaginary abjecti… read more
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11. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
By: Gerald Graff , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They Say / I Say"shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most impor… read more
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12. Feminist Disability Studies
By: None
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among … read more
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13. The Laugh of the Medusa
By: Hélène Cixous
4.09
Format: None pages,
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more
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14. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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15. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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16. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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17. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
18. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
19. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
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"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
20. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
By: Emily Ladau
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable step… read more
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21. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
22. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
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"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
23. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
24. Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
By: Angela M. Smith
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous c… read more
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25. Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
By: Ria Cheyne
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science ficti… read more
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26. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body
By: Lennard J. Davis
4.14
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with d… read more
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27. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
By: David T. Mitchell
4.06
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Narrative Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasiv… read more
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28. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
By: Dan Goodley
4.02
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
This introduction to disability studies represents a clear, engaging, and consistently thought-prov… read more
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29. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
By: Clare Barker
4.44
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including Ameri… read more
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30. Literature and Disability (Literature and Contemporary Thought)
By: Alice Hall
4.09
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in whi… read more
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31. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front)
By: Simi Linton
3.97
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
Disabled people have emerged from the shadows and back rooms of our institutions, upping the ante o… read more
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