Review by Pamela Kaye Wright, Texas A&M University—Kingsville, Email: pamela.wright@tamuk.edu Keywords: Deafness, medicine In her “Preface” to Hearing Happiness, Jaipreet Virdi explains her goal is…
Month: July 2025
Reviewed by Ren Reyes, University of California San Diego, Email: avr009@ucsd.edu Keywords: Japanese culture, representation, media studies Can manga be successfully used as a platform…
Review by Corrine Li, Email: corrine.li@aol.com Keywords: history; humor In Seriously Funny: Disability & the Paradoxical Power of Humor, Bingham and Green show that cultural…
Review by Tracey Edelist, University of Toronto, Email: tracey.edelist@mail.utoronto.ca Keywords: biography, memoir, medicine, Deafness, oralism Katie Booths’ The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander…
Review by Hannah Bingham Brunne, Oklahoma State University, Email: hannah.bingham_brunner@okstate.edu Keywords: metagnosis, biography/memoir, identity, selfhood, medicine, identity, adult diagnosis In Metagnosis: Revelatory narratives of health…
Review by Valerie Moyer, Stony Brook University, Email: valerie.moyer@stonybrook.edu Keywords: sports, Japan, physical disability In More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability…
Review by Julie Van Dam, University of Southern California, Email: julie.vandam@usc.edu Keywords: sex, sexuality, gender expression, physical disabilities, South Africa, social change It seems appropriate…
Review by Kenya Loud, Yale University, Email: kenya.loudd@yale.edu Keywords: Anti-Racism; Black Feminism; Health Disparities In the 2021 book, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in…
Reviewed by David Adelman, Email: David.adelman@utdallas.edu Cynthia Barounis’s Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood (2019, Temple University Press) is a study…
Review by Slava Greenberg, University of Southern California, Email: slavagre@usc.edu Keywords: identity; mental illness The debate over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…