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:

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-130.html

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

turley2@earthlink.net

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

turley2@earthlink.net

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, 2010-2011). 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:

Cherniak, Elizabeth.  "Discourse with the Monstruous:  Able-Bodied and Disabled Encounters with Primitive Other in Africa," in Pedro F. Marcelino, ed., _Home in Motion:  The Shifting Grammars of Self and Stranger_ (Oxford Interdisciplinary Press 2011).

Ghadessi, Touba.  "Inventoried Monsters:  Dwarves and Hirsutes at Court," _Journal of the History of Collections_ 23(2)(2011):  267-281.

Grischow, Jeff D.  "Kwame Nkrumah, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957-66," _Journal of African History_ 52(2)(2011):  179-199.

Lubin, David M.  "Losing Sight:  War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22," _Art History_ 34(4) (September 2011):  796-817.

Serlin, David.  "Touching Histories:  Personality, Disability, and Sex  in the 1930s," in Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, eds., _Sex and Disability_ (Duke University Press, forthcoming January 2012):  145-164.

REVIEWS:

James W. Trent reviewed C. F. Goodey, _A HIstory of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability':  The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe_ (Ashgate 2011), in _Reviews in History_ (2011)(review #1140);
online here:
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1140

Zosha Stuckey reviewed Lillian Craton, _The Victorian Freak Show:  The Significance of Disability and Physical Difference in 19th-Century Fiction_ (Cambria Press 2009), in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(4)
(2011): online here:
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1696/1778

Eric Wertheimer reviewed John C. Burnham, _Accident Prone:  A History  of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age_ (University of Chicago Press 2009), in _American Historical Review_ 116(4)(October 2011):  1090-1091. 

DISSERTATIONS:

Joanna Pearce (MA, Dalhousie University 2011):  "'Fighting in the Dark':  Sir Charles Frederick Fraser and the Halifax Asylum for the Blind, 1850-1915"


Contributions received this month from:  Kathleen Sheldon, Jonathon Erlen, Joanna Pearce, Tim Vermande

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

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, 2010-2011). 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:

Filippi, Natacha. "Deviance, Punishment, and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid: Insane, Political, and Common-Law Prisoners in a South African Gaol," _Journal of South African Studies_ 37(3)(2011): 627-643.

Laes, Christian. "Silent Witnesses: Deaf-Mutes in Graeco-Roman Antiquity," _Classical World_ 104(4)(Summer 2011): [no pages, sorry].

McCulloch, Jock. "Air Hunger: The 1930 Johannesburg Conference and the Politics of Silicosis," _History Workshop Journal_ 72(2011): 118-137.

REVIEWS:

Heli Leppälä reviewed Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009) in _Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research_ 13(2)(2011): 169-172.

Emma Griffin reviewed Catherine Mills, _Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914_ (Ashgate 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(522)(2011): 1213-1214.

Brenda Assael reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(522)(2011): 1221-1222.

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 Studies_ 40(7)(2011): 940-945.

Joe Parker reviewed Masae Kato, _Women's Rights? The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan_ (Amsterdam UP 2009) in _Women's Studies_ 40(7)(2011): 951-955.

Amos Yong reviewed Vardit Rispler-Chaim, _Disability in Islamic Law_(Springer 2007), in _Religious Studies Review_ 37(3)(September 2011): 228-229.

Daniel C. Dillard reviewed Nathaniel Deutsch, _Inventing America's "Worst" Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael_ (University of California Press 2009) in _Religious Studies Review_ 37(3)(September 2011): 230.

Barbara Cole reviewed Jan W. Valle, _What Mothers Say About Special Education: From the 1960s to the Present_ (Palgrave 2009), in _History of Education_ 40(4)(July 2011): 553-556.

DISSERTATIONS:

Blake, Nathan D. (PhD, University of California-Irvine 2011): "Camera Consciousness: The Aesthetic and Prosthetic Legacy of World War I"

Advisor: Peter Krapp

Meredith-Dunlop, Amanda Leigh (MA, University of Utah 2011): "Body and Mind: A Comparison of Photographic Depictions of Physically and Mentally Wounded British Soldiers During the Great War"

Advisor: Nadja Durbach

NEW BOOKS:

Stuart Murray, _Autism_ (Taylor and Francis 2011).

Submissions received this month from: Dan Wilson, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-HUM), Kathleen Sheldon

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

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, 2010-2011). 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:

Barry, Lorelle, and Catharine Coleborne. "Insanity and Ethnicity in New Zealand: Maori Encounters with the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1860-1900," _History of Psychiatry_ 22(3)(September 2011): 268-284.

Brian, Kathleen M. "The Reclamation of Anna Agnew: Violence, Victimhood, and the Uses of 'Cure,'" _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(3)(2011): 279-302.

Joshua, Essaka. "The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's _Notre-Dame de Paris_," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(3)(2011): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1677

Kelly, Susan. "Education of Tubercular Children in Northern Ireland, 1921 to 1955," _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 426-444.

Martyr, Philippa. "'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses of Lunacy among Indigenous Persons in Western Australia, 1870-1914," _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 316-333.

Newman, Sara. "Disability and Self Life Writing: Reports from the Nineteenth Century Asylum," _Journal of LIterary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(3)(2011): 261-278.

Pearce, David. "Evacuation and Deprivation: The Wartime Experience of the Devon and Exeter City Mental Hospitals," _History of Psychiatry_ 22(3)(September 2011): 315-331.

Stuckey, Zosha. "'What Has Become of Jimmy Thornton?': The Rhetoric(s) of Letter-Writing at the New York State Asylum for Idiots, 1855-1866," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(3)(2011): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1669

REVIEWS:

Akihito Suzuki reviewed Catharine Coleborne, _Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914_ (Macmillan 2010), in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 499-500.

Stephanie Neuner reviewed Jason Crouthamel, _The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics, and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945_ (University of Exeter Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 501-502.

Andrew Hull reviewed Carole Reeves and Ann Shaw, _The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959_ (Wellcome Trust 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 1922-1959.

Dora Vargha reviewed Heather Green Wooten, _The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown_ (Texas A&M University Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 525-526.

Julie Anderson reviewed Stuart Blume, _The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness_(Rutgers University Press 2010) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 531-532.

Sadiah Qureshi reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacles of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2009), in _Centaurus_ 53(3)(August 2011): 237-238.

Jacqueline Wernimont reviewed Andrew Scull, _Hysteria: A Biography_ (Oxford UP 2009), in _Women's Studies_ 40(2011): 814-817.

DISSERTATIONS:

Boster, Dea Hadley (PhD, University of Michigan 2010): "Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African-American Slavery in the United States, 1800-1860"

Advisor: Martin S. Pernick

NEW BOOK:

Petra Kuppers, _Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape_ (Palgrave 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Samuel Miller, John Erlen, Petra Kuppers, Brenda Brueggemann (via DS-HUM)

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

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, 2010-2011). 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:

Brooks, Jane. "Managing the Burden: Nursing Older People in England, 1955-1980," _Nursing Inquiry_ 18(3)(September 2011):  226-234.

Jordan, Brian Matthew. "'Living Monuments': Union Veteran Amputees  and the Embodied Memory of the Civil War," _Civil War History_ 57(2)(June 2011):  121-152.

Precoda, Karl, and P. S. Polanah. "In the Vortex of Modernity: Writing Blackness, Blindness, and Insight," _Journal of Modern  Literature_ 34(3)(Spring 2011):  31-46.

Shaidi, Aliya.  "Marriage and Mental Illness in the Mamluk Period," in  M. Haddad, Armin Heinemanna, John L. Meloy, and Souad Slim, eds., _Towards a Cultural History of the Mamluk Era_ (Orient Institut Beirut/ Ergon Verlag 2010).

NEW BOOK:

Emily Russell,_Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic_(Rutgers University Press 2011).

NEW THESES AND DISSERTATIONS:

Mark Feigan (PhD, La Trobe University 2011): "The Victorian Office of the Public Advocate: A First History 1986-2007"

Online: http://www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au/

Sarah M. Gray, (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011) "Irish Disability: Postcolonial Narratives of Stunted Development" Advisor: Joseph Valente

Online: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/24252

Dollman, Carly (BA Honors Dissertation, University of Stirling 2011): "Moral Therapy: The English Pauper Lunatic Asylum, circa 1845-1856"

Contributions received this month from: Kristina Richardson, Mark Feigan, Samuel Miller, John Erlen, Iain Hutchison, Rachel A. Zubal- Ruggieri (via DS-HUM)

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

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, 2010-2011). 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:

Birchenall, Javier A. "Airborne Diseases: Tuberculosis in the Union Army," _Explorations in Economic History_ 48(2)(April 2011): 325-342.

Johnson, Russell L. "'Great Injustice': Social Status and the Distribution of Military Pensions after the Civil War," _Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era_ 10(2)(April 2011): [no pages, sorry].

Laws, Jennifer. "Crackpots and Basket-Cases: A History of Therapeutic Work and Occupation," _History of the Human Sciences_ 24(2011): 65-81.

Pappous, Athanasios (Sakis), Anne Marcellini, and Eric deLéséleuc. "From Sydney to Beijing: The Evolution of the Photographic Coverage of Paralympic Games in Five European Countries," _Sport in Society_ 14(3)(2011): 355-369.

Reaume, Geoffrey. "Psychiatric Patient Built Wall Tours at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, 2000-2010," _Left History_ 15(1)(Fall-Winter 2010-2011), 129-148.

Stebbings, Chantal. "An Effective Model of Institutional Taxation: Lunatic Asylums in Nineteenth-Century England," _Journal of Legal History_ 32(1)(2011): 31-59.

NEW BOOK:

Katherine Byrne, _Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination_ (Cambridge University Press 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Geoffrey Reaume

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net