Tuesday, May 1, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2011-2012). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).


ARTICLES:


Brownlee, Kimberly, "Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Northwest Ohio: The Lucas County Infirmary and Poor Farm and the Toledo State Hospital," _Northwest Ohio History_ 79(Fall 2011): 1-14.

Ferlito, Susanna. "Hysteria's Upheavals: Emotional Fault Lines in Cristina di Belgiojoso's Health History," _Modern Italy_ 17(2)(2012): 157-170.

Grimsley-Smith, Melinda. "Revisiting a 'Demographic Freak': Irish Asylums and Hidden Hunger," _Social History of Medicine_ 25(2)(2012): 307-323.

Munyi, Chomba Wa. "Past and Present Perceptions Towards Disability: A Historical Perspective," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 32(2) (2012): online open access here: http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3197

York, Sarah. "Alienists, Attendants, and the Containment of Suicide in Public Lunatic Asylums, 1845-1890," _Social History of Medicine_ 25(2)(2012): 324-342.


REVIEWS:


Joanna Bourke reviewed Julie Anderson, _War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain: 'Soul of a Nation'_ (Manchester University Press 2011), in _Social History of Medicine_ 25(2)(2012): 565-566.

Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor reviewed Linda V. Carlisle, _Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight_ (University of Illinois Press 2010) in _American Historical Review_ 117(2)(April 2012): 533-534.

Elizabeth A. Dolan reviewed Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker, and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson, _Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800_ (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), in _The Review of English Studies_ 63(259)(2012): 327-329.

Mark Mostert reviewed Margret A. Winzer, _From Integration to Inclusion: A History of Special Education in the 20th Century_ (Gallaudet University Press 2009), in _History of Education Quarterly_ 52(2)(May 2012): 319-321.

Michael Sappol reviewed Elizabeth Stephens, _Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present_ (Liverpool University Press 2011) in _Social History of Medicine_ 25(2)(2012): 546-548.

Mary Ann Lund reviewed Katharine Hodgkin, ed., _Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert_ (Ashgate 2010), in _Social History of Medicine_ 25(2) (2012): 559-560.


NEW BOOKS:


David M. Turner, _Disability in Eighteenth Century England_ (Routledge 2012).

Gretchen E. Henderson, _Galerie de Difformité_ (Lake Forest College Press 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Dan Wilson, Kathleen Sheldon, Ethan Henderson

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

Monday, April 2, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2011-2012). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).


ARTICLES:

Bjarnason, Davíð, Valgerður Stefánsdóttir & Lizette Beukes. "Signs speak as loud as words: deaf empowerment in Namibia," _Development in Practice_ 22(2)(2012): 190-201.

Mauger, Alice. "'Confinement of the Higher Orders': The Social Role of Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, c. 1820-60," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 67(2)(April 2012): 281-317.

Moeschen, Sheila. "Debutantes, Disease, and Democracy: Discourses of Gender and Nationhood in 1930s Polio Pageants," _Women's Studies_ 41(3) (April-May 2012): 303-323.

Reeder, Linda. "Unattached and Unhinged: The Spinster and the Psychiatrist in Liberal Italy, 1860-1922," _Gender & History_ 24(1) (April 2012): 187-204.

Watts Belser, Julia. "Reading Talmudic Bodies: Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism," in Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus, eds., _Disability in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions and Social Analysis. World Religions and Disability, vol. 2_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011): [no pages, sorry].

Watts Belser, Julia, with Melanie S. Morrison. "What No Longer Serves Us: Resisting Ableism and Anti-Judaism In New Testament Healing Narratives," _Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion_ 17(2)(Fall 2011): [no pages, sorry].


REVIEWS:

Susan Hogan reviewed Lisa Appignanesi, _Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present_ (Virago Press 2008), in _Women's History_ 21(1)(2012): 164-166.

Jeffrey S. Reznick reviewed Richard Verville, _War, Politics, and Philanthropy: The History of Rehabilitation Medicine_ (University Press of America 2009), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 67(2)(April 2012): 35-337.

Ashley Baggett reviewed Ann Shaw and Carole Reeves, _The Children of Craig-y-Nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959_ (Wellcome Trust Centre 2009), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 67(2)(April 2012): 337-339.


NEW BOOKS:

R. A. R. Edwards, _Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture_ (NYU Press 2012).


Contributions received this month from: Kathleen Sheldon, Tim Vermande


compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

Monday, March 5, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2011-2012). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).


ARTICLES:

Cross, Simon. "Bedlam in Mind: Seeing and Reading Historical Images of Madness," _European Journal of Cultural Studies_ 15(2012): 19-34.

Kornasky, Linda. "Disabling Modernism: Ellen Glasgow's _In This Life_," _Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers_ 4(2011): 73-100.

Leung, Colette. "Profile: The Living Archives Project: Canadian Disability and Eugenics," _Canadian Journal of Disability Studies_ 1(1) (2012): 143-166.

Reaume, Geoffrey. "Disability History in Canada: Present Work in the Field and Future Prospects," _Canadian Journal of Disability Studies_ 1(1)(2012): 35-81.

Turner, David M. "'Fraudulent' Disability in Historical Perspective," _History and Policy_ (February 2012): online, open-access, here:

Turner, David M. "Disability and Crime in Eighteenth-Century England: Physical Impairment at the Old Bailey," _Cultural and Social History_ 9(1)(March 2012): 47-64.


REVIEWS:

Dianne Phipps reviewed David Wright, _Downs: The History of a Disability_ (Oxford University Press 2011), in _British Journal of Learning Disabilities_ 40(1)(March 2012): 81-82.

Kathy Merlock Jackson reviews Jason Emerson, ed. and annot., Myra Helmer Prichard, _The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by her own Letters_ (Southern Illinois University Press 2011), in _Journal of American Culture_ 35(1)(March 2012): 78-79.

Max J. Skidmore reviewed Candice Millard, _Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President_ (Doubleday 2011) in _Journal of American Culture_ 35(1)(March 2012): 79-80.

Diego Armus reviewed Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys, eds.,_Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease_ (McGill-Queens University Press 2010), in_American Historical Review 117(1)(February 2012): 172-173.

Sally Crawford reviewed Joshua Eyler, ed., _Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations_ (Farnham 2010), in _Social History of Medicine_ 25(1)(February 2012): 263-264.

Dustin Galer reviewed Sonali Shah and Mark Priestley, _Disability and Social Change: Private Lives and Public Policies_ (Policy Press 2011) in _Disability & Society_ 27(2)(2012): 299-301.


NEW BOOKS:

Fred Pelka, _What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement_ (University of Massachusetts Press 2012).

Ora Horn Prouser, _Esau's Blessing: How the Bible Embraces those with Special Needs_ (Ben Yehuda 2011).


Contributions received this month from: Karen Fisk, Jay Dolmage (via DS-Hum), Kathleen Sheldon, David M. Turner, Tim Vermande, Linda Kornasky (via DS-Hum), Dustin Galer


compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2011-2012). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).


ARTICLES:

Bloul, Rachel A. D. "Ain't I a Woman? Female Landmine Survivors' Beauty Pageants and the Ethics of Staring," _Social Identities_ 18(1) (January 2012): 3-18.

Dias, John, Malcolm Eardley, Elizabeth Harkness, Louise Townson, Chloe Brownlee-Chapman, and Rohhss Chapman, "Keeping Wartime Memory Alive: An Oral History Project about the Wartime Memories of People with Learning Difficulties in Cumbria," _Disability & Society_ 27(1) (2012): 31-49.

Esmail, Jennifer. "'I Listened with my Eyes': Writing Speech and Reading Deafness in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins," _ELH_ 78(4)(Winter 2011): 991-1020.

Harris, Sharon. "Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Kitty's Choice' and the Disabled Woman Physician," _American Literary Realism_ 44(Fall 2011): 23-45.

Lazzarini, Elena. "Wonderful Creatures: Early Modern Perceptions of Deformed Bodies," _Oxford Art Journal_ 34(3)(2011): 415-431.

Martin, Holly E. "Chang and Eng Bunker, 'The Original Siamese Twins': Living, Dying, and Continuing under the Spectator's Gaze," _Journal of American Culture_ 34(4)(December 2011): 372-390.


REVIEWS:

Angus Gowland reviewed Mary Ann Lund, _Melancholy, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy_ (Cambridge UP 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(523)(2011): 1527-1529.


Fiona Pettit reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (UC Press 2010), in _Early Popular Visual Culture_ 9(4)(2011): 365-367.


NEW BOOKS:

Richard Noll, _American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox_ (Harvard University Press 2011).

Doug Underwood, ed. _Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss_ (University of Illinois Press 2011).


Contributions received this month from: Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-Hum), Daniel Wilson, Kathleen Sheldon


compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability