Human Rights and Disability A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions
• K. Kristiansen, S. Vehmas and T. Shakespere, Arguing about Disability: Philosophical
perspectives (Routledge 2010)
• K. Johnson and M. Wolfe, People with Intellectual Disabilities – Toward a good life
(Bristol Policy Press, 2010)
• K. Brownlie and A. Cureton (eds.), Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford, 2009)
• C. Barnes and G. Mercer (eds.), Disability (Polity Press, Key Concepts, 2008)
• S. Mitra, ‘The Capability Approach and Disability’, Vol 16, No 4, Journal of Disability Policy
Studies (2006)
• R. McRuer, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU Press, 2006)
• T. Shakespheare, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited (Routledge, 2006)
• S. Riddell and N. Watson, Disability, Culture and Identity (Pearson, 2003)
• T. Titchkosky, Disability, Self and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
• R. Traustadottir and K. Johnson (eds.), Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a place in
the world (Jessica Kingsley, 2000
• T. Shakespeare, ‘The Social Model of Disability: an Outdated Ideology’, Vol 2 Research in Social
Science & Disability (2002)
• M. Corker and T. Shakeaspeare (eds.), Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying disability theory
(Continuum Press, 2002)
• P. Longmore and L. Umansky, The New Disability History (NYU Press, 2001)
• C. Barnes, G. Mercer and T. Shakespeare, Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction
(Polity Press, 1999)
• C. Thomas, Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability (Open University
Press 1999)
• T. Shakeaspeare (ed.) The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives (Continuum, 1999)
• J. Swain, V. Finkelstein, S. French and M. Oliver, Disabling Barriers: Enabling Environments
(Sage, 1994)
• J. Morris, Pride against Prejudice: Transforming attitudes towards disability
(The Woman’s Press, 1991)
• Mark Priestly (in consultation with Vic Finkelstein and Ken Davis), The Union of the Physically
Impaired Against Segregation and the Disability Alliance Discuss Fundamental Principles of
Disability (reflecting a discussion in 1975). Though dated, this is a classic.
YouTube and other video resources
There is a now a large selection of videos on YouTube and other sites explaining the new thinking in
disability from persons with disabilities themselves.
• C. Casey (2011) ‘Looking Past Limits’, TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, December 2011
Available at www.ted.com/talks/caroline_casey_looking_past_limits.html
• Channel 4 (2012) ‘Meet the Superhumans’, YouTube
Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw
• Baggs, A. (2007), ‘In My Language’, YouTube
Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
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