Description
Book SynopsisDisability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories.
Trade Review"This compilation is a pioneering study of the 'borderlands' of the body. The diverse chapters speak to activists and scholars, as well as those less familiar with the issues of disability studies and gender studies. It will serve the academic and activist communities well, encouraging new insights into the ways we define ourselves and others." -- Susan Burch * author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War *
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Gendering Disability is among the most intellectually stimulating books I have read in years. The stunning breadth of the discussion evokes personal experience with disability, elucidates the historical and social meanings of bodily differences, and places disability within other theoretical frameworks." -- Alice Kessler-Harris * author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizens *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction / BONNIE G. SMITH
PART I. Positions Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / ADRIENNE ASCH
Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights, from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / SUMI COLLIGAN
Interpreting Women / BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANN
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON
PART II. Desire and Identity Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / ALISON KAFER
Fighting Polio Like a Man: Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Aging / DANIEL J. WILSON
"Disability" and "Divorce": A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates His Options in 1756 / CATHERINE J. KUDLICK
Bodies in Trouble: Identity, Embodiment, and Disability / KRISTIN LINDGREN
Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTH
PART III. Arts and Embodiment Helen Keller's Love Life / GEORGINA KLEEGE
Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / SARAH E. CHINN
Disability, Gender, and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo / ROBIN AD��LE GREELEY
"But, Mother I'm crippled!": Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance / ANN M. Fox
PART IV. Citizens and Consumers Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / LISA SCHUR
Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGH
Women and Emerging Disabilities / MELISSA J. MCNEIL AND THILO KROLL
The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / CORBETT JOAN O'TOOLE
Notes on Contributors
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