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Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis
Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / M. Lynn Rose
"A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton
The other arms race / David Serlin
(Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the Human Genome Project / James C. Wilson
Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane
Abortion and disability : who should and who 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
Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman
Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman
AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag
Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton
Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body / Tobin Siebers
On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment / Shelley Tremain
The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare
Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
The dimension of disability oppression : an overview / James I. Charleton
The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis
Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell
Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal / Chris Bell
"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
Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer
The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith
Interlude 1 : On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggeman
Deaf people : a different center / Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis
Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman
The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey
Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff
Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Georgina Kleege
Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser
Helen and Frida / Anne Finger
Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade
Poems/ Kenny Fries
Selections from The cry of the gull / Emmanuelle Laborit.

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