Part I: Historical perspectives -- Medieval constructions of blindness in France and England / Edward Wheatley -- A brief history of discrimination and disabled people / Colin Barnes -- "A silent exile on this earth": the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- Disability and the human genome / James C. Wilson -- Medieval constructions of blindness in France and England / Edward Wheatley -- Part II: The politics of disability -- A mad fight: psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis -- (Post) colonizing disability / Mark Sherry -- Abortion and disability: who should and should not inhabit the world: / Ruth Hubbard -- Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization / Michael Davidson -- The dimensions of disability oppression / James Charlton -- A mad fight: psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis -- Part III: Stigma and illness -- On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggemann -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Beholding / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggemann -- Part IV: Theorizing disability -- The unexceptional schizophrenic: a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast -- Enabling disability: rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson -- The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare -- Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder -- The unexceptional schizophrenic: a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast -- Part V: Identities and intersectionalities -- This is what we think / Daniel Docherty ... [et al.] -- Disability and the theory of complex embodiment--for identity politics in a new register / Tobin Siebers -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Is disability studies actually white disability studies? / Chris Bell -- Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer -- Deaf people: a different center / "Hearing aids are not deaf": a historical perspective on technology in the deaf world / R. A. R. Edwards -- Minority politics in Korea: disability, interraciality, and gender / Eunjung Kim -- This is what we think / Daniel Docherty ... [et al.] -- Part VI: Disability and culture -- Autism as culture / Joseph N. Straus -- The vulnerable articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith -- Sculpting body ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the public display of disability / Ann Millett-Gallant -- "When black women start going on Prozac....": the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me / Anna Mollow -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Blindness and visual culture: an eyewitness account / Georgina Kleege -- Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser -- Autism as culture / Joseph N. Straus -- Part VII: Fiction, memoir, and poetry -- Selections from Planet of the Blind / Steve Kuusisto. Unspeakable conversations / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- "I am not one of the" and "Cripple lullaby" / Cheryl Marie Wade -- "Beauty and variations" / Kenny Fries -- Selections from Cripple Poetics / Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus -- Selections from The Cry of the Gull / Emmanuelle Laborit -- Selections from Planet of the Blind / Steve Kuusisto.
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