The Society for Disability Studies

The Society for Disability Studies is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization. It is a multidisciplinary and international organization composed of social scientists, scholars in the humanities, and disability rights advocates concerned with the problems of disabled people in society. The purpose of the Society is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and to engage in dialogues that cut across disciplinary backgrounds and substantive concerns. The Society is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

Further information on membership and the annual meeting can be obtained from the national office of the Society. The mailing address is: Society for Disability Studies, c/o Professor Carol Gill, Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626), 1640 Roosevelt Road #236, Chicago, IL 60608-6904.

Subscription Information

Subscriptions to Disability Studies Quarterly are on an annual basis and are part of membership in the Society for Disability Studies, except for library and institutional subscriptions. If you are not certain about the status of your subscription, please contact the Society for Disability Studies office in Chicago at the address given above, by telephone at 312-996-4664 (V/TTY), or by email at <cg16@uic.edu>. Additional information about the Society is available at our website, <www.uic.edu/orgs/sds>.

The Samuel Gridley Howe Library in Waltham, Massachusetts, is the repository for past issues of Disability Studies Quarterly. The papers and books of Howe, of Irving Kenneth Zola, of Rosemary and Gunnar Dybwad, and some (but eventually all) of the papers and books of David Pfeiffer are also deposited there. Bonnie Stecher is the librarian at the Howe Library. The Library is available for research into all aspects of disability.

Past issues of Disability Studies Quarterly are available for purchase for $10.00 each. Please specify the theme of the issue and the volume and issue number. Your request with a check made out to Friends of the Howe Library should be mailed to Howie Baker, MS #044, Brandeis University, P.O. Box 9110, Waltham, MA 02254-9110. The subject matter of available past issues will soon be available on the SDS web site: <www.wipd.com/sds>. Howie Baker <baker@binah.cc.brandeis.edu> can answer questions.

Instructions for Symposium Editors and Contributors are available from the Editor, David Pfeiffer, on the Internet at <pfeiffer@hawaii.edu>.

Future Issues

Spring 2001: Advertising and People with Disabilities, Olan Farnall ofarnall@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU and Beth Haller bhaller@towson.edu.

Fall 2001: Disability Geography, Michael L. Dorn mdorn@zoo.uvm.edu and Deborah Metzel dsmetzel@yahoo.com.

Winter 2002: open

Spring 2002: Counselling, Therapy, and Emancipatory Praxis, Deborah Marks D.S.Marks@sheffield.ac.uk.

Summer 2002: Sexuality and Disability, Linda R. Mona lindam@wid.org lead editor and Devva Kasnitz devva@wid.org.

Fall 2002: Disability Culture II, Steve Brown SBrown8912@aol.com.

Winter 2003: Disability Geography - II, Deborah Metzel dsmetzel@yahoo.com and Michael L. Dorn mdorn@zoo.uvm.edu.

Spring 2003: Disability and the Life Course, Mark Priestley m.a.priestley@leeds.ac.uk.

Summer 2003: Disability and the Genome, James C. Wilson wilsonjc@email.uc.edu. Fall 2003: open