Disability and Passing

Jeffrey A. Brune is Assistant Professor of History at Gallaudet University. Currently he is working on his monograph, Disability Stigma and the Modern American State.Daniel J. Wilson is Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. He is author of several books, including Polio: The Biography of a Disease, and Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors.

• Acknowledgments1     IntroductionJeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson2     Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of DisabilityDaniel J. Wilson3     The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public DiscourseJeffrey A. Brune4     The Menstrual MasqueradeDavid Linton5     “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American SouthDea H. Boster6     Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the BusPeta Cox7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and SportMichael A. Rembis8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual DisabilityAllison C. Carey9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf EducationKristen C. HarmonContributorsIndex

"Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson’s collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf." --Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan"Disability and Passing is innovative in its use of disability to analyze both the acts and ideologies of passing from a wide range of theoretical, topical, and disciplinary perspectives. The essays are strong and smart-some are brilliant."--Kim E. Nielsen, Professor of Disability Studies and History, University of Toledo, and author of A Disability History of the United States