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Acknowledgments 11
Preface to the Second Edition 16
Introduction 19
Part I Historical Perspectives 27
1 Constructing Normalcy 29
2 Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece**1 57
3 "A Silent Exile on This Earth" 91
4 The Other Arms Race 124
Patriotic Gore 130
Making Men Whole Again 136
Building a New Workforce 142
5 (Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text 160
(Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text 162
Genohype and the Myth of the All-Powerful Gene 166
Geneticizing Disability 168
Part II The Politics of Disability 179
6 Construction of Deafness 181
Social Problems Are Constructed 181
Disability vs. Linguistic Minority 183
Professional Influence over Constructions 185
Lessons from Services for Blind People 187
The Making of Deaf Men 189
Deaf as Linguistic Minority 191
Changing to the Linguistic Minority Construction 199
Obstacles to Change 200
Production Change 203
7 Abortion and Disability 210
The Rise of Eugenics in Britain and the United States 212
Racial Hygiene in Germany 215
Problems with Selective Abortion 228
8 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 232
Reproductive Rights in a Disability Context 233
Eugenics and the Birth Control Movement 234
Disability-Positive Identity versus Selective Abortion 236
Mixed Feelings: Disabled People Respond to Selective Abortion 238
"Did You Get Your Amnio Yet?": The Pressure to Test and Abort 240
Disabled People and the Fetus 242
Disentangling Patriarchal Control and Eugenics from Reproductive Freedom 244
Disabled Women Have a Legitimate Voice in the Abortion Debate! 248
A Proposal for the Reproductive Rights Movement 248
Caring about Ourselves and Each Other 250
9 Universal Design 255
Global Bodies 255
Disability Studies in a Global Perspective 260
Development, Devaluation, and Disability 265
The Work of the ADA in an Age of Globalization 272
Part III Stigma and Illness 278
10 Selections from Stigma 280
Stigma and Social Identity 280
Preliminary Conceptions 280
11 Stigma 300
The Dilemma 300
The Origins of Stigma 305
Stigma as a Form of Cognitive Processing 308
The Meaning of Stigma for Social Relations 310
Fear and Stigma 314
Conclusion 316
12 AIDS and Its Metaphors 324
Part IV Theorizing Disability 334
13 Reassigning Meaning 336
Naming Oppression 336
Naming the Group 336
Nice Words 341
Nasty Words 343
Speaking about Overcoming and Passing 344
Normal/Abnormal 348
Passivity versus Control 351
Multiple Meanings 354
Reflections on the Dis in Disability 355
14 Disability in Theory 360
1. Social Constructionism 362
2. Pain and More Pain 366
3. These Blunt, Crude Realities 371
4. Epilogue 376
15 On the Government of Disability 382
Introduction: Bio-power and Its Objects 382
Governing Sex and Gender 388
The Subject of Impairment 394
16 The Social Model of Disability 406
Introduction 406
What Is the Social Model of disability? 408
Strengths of the Social Model 410
Weaknesses of the Social Model 412
Beyond the Social Model? 417
17 Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor 421
Literature and the Undisciplined Body of Disability 421
The (In)visibility of Prosthesis 426
Supplementing the Void 428
The Physiognomy of Disability 433
The Materiality of Metaphor 438
18 The Dimensions of Disability Oppression 445
Political Economy and the World System 447
Culture(s) and Belief Systems 450
(False) Consciousness and Alienation 452
Power and Ideology 455
Part V The Question of Identity 468
19 The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism 470
20 Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability 494
Who Is Physically Disabled? 497
The Social Construction of Disability 500
The Oppression of Disabled People Is the Oppression of Everyone's Real Body 504
Disabled People as "Other" 510
The Knowledge of Disabled People and How It Is Silenced 514
Conclusion 516
21 Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 522
Disability Studies and Feminist Studies 522
Feminist Disability Theory 524
The Ability/DisabiIity System 527
Representation 528
The Body 532
Identity 540
Activism 546
22 Introducing White Disability Studies 557
"Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back" 557
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement 559
A Matter of Dignity: Changing the Lives of the Disabled 559
Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity 559
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body 559
Queer Disability Conference 560
Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference, 2005 561
Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference on Disability Studies and the University 561
23 "When Black Women Start Going on Prozac..." 573
Introduction: Disability Essentialism; Or, What Counts? 573
Going on Prozac 577
Distress or Disease?: Deconstructing the Social Model 584
Shall We Overcome? 593
24 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 610
Contextualizing Disability 610
Able-Bodied Heterosexuality 612
Queer/Disabled Existence 617
Critically Queer, Severely Disabled 618
25 The Vulnerable Articulate 626
Prosthetics, Aesthetics, Erotics 626
Flirting with Techno-fetishism**3 626
Part 1 630
Part 2 636
26 Interlude 1 On (Almost) Passing 648
3. Reasons you cannot be deaf 648
27 Deaf People 667
28 A Mad Fight 682
The Birth of Mad Pride Movement 686
Mad Pride Today 691
Recent Struggles with Psychiatry 694
Conclusion 704
Part VI Disability and Culture 710
29 Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body 712
Deconstruction and Deafness: Phonocentrism, Audism, and Sign Language 714
Feminism/Postcolonialism/Multiculturalism and Sign Literature 718
Toward a "Poetics of Space": From Semiotics to Phenomenology 724
Conclusion 730
30 The Enfreakment of Photography 736
31 Blindness and Art 760
32 Blindness and Visual Culture 783
33 Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation 798
Part VII Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry 805
34 Helen and Frida 807
35 Poems Cheryl Marie Wade 818
I Am Not One of the 818
Cripple Lullaby 819
36 Poems Kenny Fries 820
Beauty and Variations 820
37 Selections from The Cry of the Gull 824
Cry of the Seagull 824
Dolls Don't Talk 828
Stomachs and Music 835
White Cat, Black Cat 840
It's "Tifikul" 843
My Name Is "I" 850
Marie, Marie 857
Contributors 859
Index 869