Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labeled disabled, and how we define the norms of mental and physical ability. The essays here bridge the gap between theory and activism by illuminating structures of power and showing how historical and cultural perceptions of the human body have been informed by and contributed to the oppression of women and disabled people.
Acknowledgments
Reimagining Disability and Gender through Feminist Disability Studies:
An Introduction / Kim Q. Hall
Part 1. Toward a Theoretical Framework for Feminist Disability Studies
1. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
2. Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question of Disability / Ellen Samuels
Part 2. Refiguring Literature
3. Invisible Disability: Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen / Susannah B. Mintz
4. Revisiting the Corpus of the Madwoman: Further Notes toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Mental Illness / Elizabeth J. Donaldson
Part 3. Interrogating Fitness: Nation, Identity, and Citizenship
5. The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and Disability in Wartime / Nirmala Erevelles
6. Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of Rehabilitation / Jennifer C. James
7. Revising the Subject: Disability as "Third Dimension" in Clear Light of Day and You Have Come Back / Cindy LaCom
8. A Heritage of Ableist Rhetoric in American Feminism from the Eugenics Period / Sharon Lamp and W. Carol Cleigh
Part 4. Sexual Agency and Queer Feminist Futures
9. Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency / Abby Wilkerson
10. Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians / Alison Kafer
Part 5. Inclusions, Exclusions, and Transformations
11. Disparate but Disabled: Fat Embodiment and Disability Studies / April Herndon
12. Chronic Illness and Educational Equity: The Politics of Visibility / Karen Elizabeth Jung
13. Res(Crip)ting Feminist Theater through Disability Theater: Selections from the DisAbility Project / Ann M. Fox and Joan Lipkin
Contributors
Index
