The disability studies reader

Part I: Historical perspectives

Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis

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

Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane

(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

Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman Brown

AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag

Beholding / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggemann

Part IV: Theorizing disability

Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton

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

The end of identity politics: on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis

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

Cripping heterosexuality, queering able-bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body / Cynthia Barounis

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

Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart / Eli Clare

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.