Subject headings

Subject headings are "tags" that denote topics covered in the resources.  Different databases have different ways of organizing subject headings.  You can construct subject heading searches using the examples below.  Try these examples:

• Children with disabilities
• Disabilities
• Disabilities -- [discipline]
  • Disabilities -- Philosophy
• Disabilities -- [geographic region]
  • Disabilities -- Developing countries
• Disability awareness
• Disability evaluation
• Disability studies
• Disability studies -- [geographic region]
  • Disability studies -- South Asia
  • Disability studies -- United States
• People with disabilities
• People with disabilities in literature
• People with disabilities in mass media
• Sociology of disability

Also note the subject headings used in other resources that you find using your own searches.

Ebook Collections

The following is only a selection.  For an exhaustive list, consult the databases-by-type page.  All ebooks to which we have access are also found in the Library catalogue.

• Cambridge University Press eBooks
• Canadian Public Policy Collection
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Canadian University Press ebooks
• Ebook Central (Proquest)
• eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
• Oxford University Press eBooks
• Scholars Portal Books
• Taylor & Francis eBooks

Book Series

• Disability, human rights, and society
• Disability in society
• Interdisciplinary disability studies
• International review of research in developmental disabilities
• Research in social science and disability

Books

This list is intended to be a sample of the book resources that we have.  It is not exhaustive.  Please use author or subject heading links to locate related material.

• Approaching disability : critical issues and perspectives
  HV1568.2 .M35 2014
• Beginning with disability : a primer
  HV1568.2 .B43 2018
• Borderlands of blindness
  HV1568.2 .O43 2011
• Branding and designing disability : reconceptualising disability studies
  HV1568.2 .D456 2014
• Brilliant imperfection
  HV1568 .C528 2017
• Contours of ableism : the production of disability and abledness
  HV1568 .C36 2009
• Crip theory : cultural signs of queerness and disability
  HV1568 .M37 2006
• Critical theory and disability : a phenomenological approach 
  HV1568 .M59 2015
• Deaf and disability studies : interdisciplinary perspectives
  HV2380 .D42 2010
• Diagnosing folklore : perspectives on disability, health, and trauma
  HV1568 .D526 2015 
• Dis/ability studies : theorising disablism and ableism
  HV1568 .G66 2014
• Disability and community
  HV1568 .D543 2011
• Disability and difference in global contexts : enabling a transformative body politic
  HV1568 .E74 2011
• Disability and diversity : a sociological perspective
  HV1568.2 .S535 2008
• Disability and political theory
• Disability and qualitative inquiry : methods for rethinking an ableist world
  HV1568.2 .D565 2015
• Disability and social movements : learning from Australian experiences
  HV1559.A85 C37 2014
• Disability and social theory : new developments and directions
  HV1568 .D5638 2012
• Disability and technology : an interdisciplinary and international approach
  HV1569.5 .R68 2016
• Disability bioethics : moral bodies, moral difference
  HV1568 .S388 2008
• Disability, gender, and the trajectories of power
  HV1569.3.W65 D547 2015
• Disability in comic books and graphic narratives
  PN6714 .D57 2016
• Disability in the global South : the critical handbook
  HV1559.D44 D574 2016
• Disability politics and theory
  HV1568.2 W58 2012
• Disability politics in a global economy : essays in honor of Marta Russell
  HV1568.2 .D587 2017
• The disability reader : social science perspectives
  HV1568.25.G7 D57 1998
• Disability research and policy : current perspectives
  HV1553 .D5486 2006
• Disability rhetoric
• Disability, spaces and places of policy exclusion
  HV1568 .D57828 2014
• Disability studies: Enabling the humanities
  HV1568.2 .D594 2002 (also disk)
• Disability theory
  HV1568.2 .S54 2008
• DisCrit : disability studies and critical race theory in education
  LC4031 .D57 2016
• Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
  NA2545.A1 B69 2014
• Feminist disability studies
  HV1568.2 .F46 2011
• Feminist, queer, crip
  HV1568.2 .K34 2013
• Foucault and the government of disability
  HV1568 .F68 2015
• From exclusion to equality : realizing the rights of persons with disabilities
  K637 .F76 2015
• Handbook of research on personal autonomy technologies and disability informatics
  HV1569.5 .H3645 2011
• Introducing disability studies
  HV1568.2 .B47 2013
• Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture and Disability Activism in Canada
  NX180.H34 M62 2016 [also online]
• Moving beyond boundaries in disability studies : rights, spaces and innovations
  HV1568.2 .M68 2013
• Occupying disability : critical approaches to community, justice, and decolonizing disability
  HV1568.2 .O23 2016
• The Oxford handbook of music and disability studies
• The Oxford handbook of positive psychology and disability
  BF204.6 .O953 2013
• Purpose, process and future direction of disability research
• Researching disability issues
  HV1568.M65
• Rethinking disability : world perspectives in culture and society
  HV3011 .R438 2016
• Rethinking normalcy : a disability studies reader
  HV1568.2 R4674 2009
• Rethinking disability theory and practice : challenging essentialism
  HV1568.2 .R467 2015
• Sex and disability
  HQ30.5 .S46 2012
• Shakin' all over : popular music and disability
• The social psychology of disability
  HV1568 .D86 2015
• Sociologies of disability and illness : contested ideas in disability studies and medical sociology
  HV1568.25.G7 T47 2007
• South Asia and disability studies : redefining boundaries and extending horizons
  HV1568.25.S64 S68 2013
• Struggling for social citizenship : disabled Canadians, income security, and prime ministerial eras
• Studying disability : multiple theories and responses 
  HV1568.2 .D467 2011
• Surface tensions : surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self
  HM636 .M263 2011
• Things are different here : and other stories
  PS8626.I26 T45 2017
• Towards a contextual psychology of disablism
• The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities : European and Scandinavian perspectives
• Working with disabled people in policy and practice : a social model
  HV1559.G7 F74 2012

Maps and atlases

• Atlas of literacy and disability
  MPA G1116.E68 A85 2003
• Braille map of Canada
  G3401.A7 2005. T33
• International directory of tactile map collections
  MDR GA135 .I57

Web sites

• Canadian Centre on Disability Studies
• Canadian Disability Studies Association
• Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy
• Society for Disability Studies

Web documents

• Ableism, Disability Studies, and the Academy

• Celebrating Diversity : A Universal Message from the Real Rain Man
• Disability and Sexuality : Exploring the Intimacy Option
• Faces of diversity
• Finding a way
• Introduction to universal design
• A Place for All : Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities
• Positive images : portraits of women with disabilities
• Shameless : the art of disability
• Toward Intimacy
• Without pity : a film about abilities

For other films, consult

• Films on Demand
• NFB.ca
• WatMedia: Media Catalogue Search