DSS Lending Library

Featured Selections

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The DSS Lending Library features hundreds of wonderful books, videos, journal articles, and more. This page highlights some of these selections in order to demonstrate the range of topics covered.

Cover of May 2004 Issue of New Mobility Magazine

The May 2004 issue of New Mobility Magazine features an article on the Psychology of Disability. Cover illustration by Deron Cohen

The article, called "What's In Your Head? Who Put it There?" can be accessed online in full text by going to the New Mobility website.

This special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review from the Summer of 1998 focuses on Disability, Art, and Culture.

It features a cover called "Can't Breathe" by Cynthia Margaret Gere, as well as poetry, fiction, and art by over 20 contributors.

It can be checked out from the DSS Lending Library or made available in an accessible format upon request.

Summer 1998 cover of Michigan Quarterly Review

The Disability Rag Ragged Edge Reader is a collection of articles from the print and online published materials.

Visit the Disability Rag's Ragged Edge Magazine Online to read full text articles.

In challenging us to imagine a more accessible living environment, Johnson outlines why we all have a stake in creating such a society,...it's the one minority that anyone can join in an instant... Viewed this way, accessibility becomes a matter of self-interest for everyone. [I]f America is to live up to its promise as a place of opportunity for all, then this is a discussion we desperately need to have. Johnson's thoughtful, carefully argued book is an important contribution to that dialogue, and an excellent place to start." -- Martha Barnette, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal

Drawing on her own and other experiences of disability, Jenny Morris, editor of Able Lives, confronts the nature of the prejudice against disabled people. Pride Against Prejudice challenges the reality of being different, covering current and historical debates on the quality of disabled people's lives; the way disability is represented within Western culture; institutionalisation and independence; feminist research and 'community care'; and the politics of the disability movement.