The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	The Tyranny of the Normal	3
	From Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self	11
	The Quasimodo Complex: Deformity Reconsidered	27
	Self-Help for the Facially Disfigured: Commentary on "The Quasimodo Complex"	53
	A Brief Response to "The Quasimodo Complex"	55
	A Response to "The Quasimodo Complex"	59
	Commentary on "The Quasimodo Complex"	63
	Literature as a Clinical Capacity: Commentary on "The Quasimodo Complex"	66
	Quasimodo and Medicine: What Role for the Clinician in Treating Deformity?	76
	Deformity and the Humane Ideal of Medicine	85
	From Shame and Body Image: Culture and the Compulsive Eater	89
	Introduction to The Mismeasure of Woman	111
	To Be or Not Be A Woman: Anorexia Nervosa, Normative Gender Roles, and Feminism	121
	Washing Your Feet	143
	The Six Hundred Pound Man	145
	Fat	147
	Weight Bearing	151
	Shanks	154
	Fat People at the Amusement Park	163
	The Fat Girl	164
	The Traveler	178
	To Make a Dragon Move: From the Diary of an Anorexic	192
	When Fat Girls Dream	195
	The Meal	197
	The Pull	199
	Disappearing	201
	A Hunger Artist	204
	Dwarf House	215
	The Song the Dwarf Sings	224
	The Dwarf	225
	The President	236
	Small Man	239
	From The Dwarf	240
	Hop-Frog	247
	Beauty	259
	He	261
	Neurology Rounds	262
	A Very Special Arts Festival	264
	The Anatomy of Desire	265
	"1921," from Sula	269
	From The Elephant Man	281
	The Leg	284
	From The Journal of a Leper	286
	Everyday Use	297
	Song For My Son	305
	The Ones that are Thrown Out	306
	Good Country People	307
	To: The Access Committee	326
	Just Another Year in Chronic IA	327
	Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute	332
	The Birthmark	334
	From The Hunchback of Notre Dame	349
	Gargoyles	352
	The Ear	353
	Harrison Bergeron	356
	The Diary of an Infidel	362
	Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden	366
	About the Authors	375
	Permissions Acknowledgments	381
	Index	385