The Disability Studies Reader Book

1	Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century	3
2	Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece	17
3	"A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century	33
4	The other arms race	49
5	(Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the human genome project	67
6	Construction of deafness	79
7	Abortion and disability : who should and who should not inhabit the world?	93
8	Disability rights and selective abortion	105
9	Universal design : the work of disability in an age of globalization	117
10	Selections from Stigma	131
11	Stigma : an enigma demystified	141
12	AIDS and its metaphors	153
13	Reassigning meaning	161
14	Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body	173
15	On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment	185
16	The social model of disability	197
17	Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor	205
18	The dimensions of disability oppression : an overview	217
19	The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category	231
20	Toward a feminist theory of disability	243
21	Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory	257
22	Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal	275
23	"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	283
24	Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence	301
25	The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney	309
26	Interlude 1 : on (almost) passing	321
27	Deaf people : a different center	331
28	A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism	339
29	Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory	355
30	The enfreakment of photography	367
31	Blindness and art	379
32	Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account	391
33	Disability, life narrative, and representation	399
34	Helen and Frida	405
35	Poems	411
36	Poems	413
37	Selections from The cry of the gull	417