Stigmas
Old and New
Booklist by Topic
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Perspectives on Stigma
- Brewis, A., & Wutich, A. (2022). Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Brylla, C. (2023). Documentary and Stereotypes: Reducing Stigma Through Factual Media. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Dijker, A. J. M., & Koomen, W. (2007). Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair: An Integrative Psychological Analysis of Responses to Deviance. Cambridge University Press.
- Falk, G. (2001). Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders. Prometheus Books.
- Goffman, E. (2022). Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (reprint ed.). Penguin Classics. (original work published 1963)
- Keen, D. (2025). Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion (paperback ed.). Princeton University Press.
- Lamont, M. (2025). Seeing Others: How Recognition Works―and How It Can Heal a Divided World. Atria/One Signal Publishers.
- Levin, S., & Van Laar, C. (Eds.). (2006). Stigma and Group Inequality: Social Psychological Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Major, B., Dovidio, J. F., & Link, B. C. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health. Oxford University Press.
- powell, j. a., & Menendian, S. (2024). Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World. Stanford University Press.
- Thomas, G., Williams, O., Spratt, T., & Chandler, A. (Eds.). (2025). Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness. Bristol University Press.
- Tyler, I. (2023). Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality (paperback ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Webster, M., Jr., & Walker, L. S. (Eds.). (2022). Unequals: The Power of Status and Expectations in our Social Lives. Oxford University Press.
The Stigma of Mental Illness
- Grinker, R. R. (2022). Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Malli, M. A., & Forrester-Jones, R. (2020). Tourette’s Syndrome, Stigma, and Society’s Jests. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Morehead, D. B. (2021). Science Over Stigma: Education and Advocacy for Mental Health. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
- Price, D. (2022). Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. Harmony.
- Rensin, E. (2024). The Complications: On Going Insane in America. HarperOne.
- Vogel, D. L., & Wade, N. G. (Eds.). (2022). The Cambridge Handbook of Stigma and Mental Health. Cambridge University Press.
The Stigma of Disabilities
- Charlton, J. I. (2000). Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment. University of California Press.
- Davis, L. J. (Ed.). (2017). The Disability Studies Reader (5th ed.). Routledge.
- Fleischer, D. Z., & Zames, F. (2011). The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (updated ed.). Temple University Press.
- Harris, J. (2024). Boldly Belong: The Power of Being You in a Disabling Society. Wiley.
- Kessler, M. M. (2022). Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness. Ohio State University Press.
- Ladau, E. (2021). Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally. Ten Speed Press.
- Reynolds, J. M. (2022). The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality. University of Minnesota Press.
- Scior, K., & Werner, S. (Eds.). (2016). Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shakespeare, T. (2018). Disability: The Basics. Routledge.
- Shapiro, J. P. (1993). No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Times Books.
- Shew, A. (2024). Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (paperback ed.). W. W. Norton & Company.
- Wehmeyer, M. L., & Dunn, D. S. (Eds.). (2022). The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications for Understanding Disability. Lexington Books.
- Wong, A. (Ed.). (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Routledge.
- Yu, T. (2025). The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: How to Build a Disability-Inclusive World (paperback ed.). Souvenir Press.
Other Forms of Stigma
- Adler, K. F., & Burnes, D. W. (2023). When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America. North Atlantic Books.
- Deguire, L., & Jaffe, M. (2026). Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference. Routledge.
- DePaulo, Bella. (2006). Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. St. Martin’s Press.
- Ellis-Ordway, N., & Osborn, T. (Eds.). (2025). Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation (paperback ed.). Pearlsong Press.
- Flanagan, O. (2025). What Is It Like to Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse. Oxford University Press.
- Manne, K. (2025). Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (trade paperback ed.). Crown.
- Offord, R., Field, E., & Kaiser, P. (Eds.). (2025). Narrative Therapy and Older People: Challenging Stigma, Supporting Connection and Building Hope. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
- Smith, C., & Hunt, J. (2021). Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma. Visualize Publishing.
- Worthen, M. (2020). Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Examination of LGBTQ Stigma. Routledge.
- Zucker, J. (2025). Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women’s Lives. PESI Publishing, Inc.