Une nouvelle collection

DISABILITY HISTORIES

a new book series from the University of Illinois Press
Disability Histories, a new book series from the University of Illinois Press, seeks scholarship that explores the lived experiences of individuals and groups from a broad range of societies, cultures, time periods, and geographic locations, who either identified as disabled or were considered by the dominant culture to be disabled. We conceive of disability and disabled experiences broadly and seek to include scholarship that spans a range of embodiments, including the emerging field of mad studies. We areespecially interested in scholarship that not only employs innovative approaches to using disability—in constant interaction with systems of race, class, gender, and sexuality—as an analytical tool to deepen our understanding of larger power relations, ideologies, and institutions, but also engages in meaningful dialogue with other subdisciplines within history, such as legal and political histories, social histories, histories of technology, science, and medicine, histories of the body and sexuality, and histories of the development of capitalism and imperialism. Comparative, cross-cultural, and transnational submissions by both junior and more seasoned scholars are encouraged.

Series co-editors:  Kim E. Nielsen (kim.nielsen2@utoledo.edu) and Michael A. Rembis (marembis@buffalo.edu)

Series submissions should include: a 2 page vita and a 5-10 page book synopsis that includes a brief chapter outline, a discussion of competing books and likely audiences, and a discussion of how the project advances the aims of the series.

Series books include:
- Susan Burch and Michael A. Rembis, eds., Disability Histories (forthcoming).
- Michael A. Rembis, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls,1890-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.  [Paperback, Feb. 2013].