Disabled Gaze

Jaipreet Virdi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is author of two books: Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (2020) and Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (2024). Jennifer Van Horn is Professor in Art History & History at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of The Power of Objects in British North America (2017) and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery (2023).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsForeword: Facing the Disabled Gaze: Intimacy and Vulnerability Between Artist, Subject, and Friends, Riva Lehrer (Art Institute of Chicago, USA) and Sharonna Pearl (Texas Christian University, USA)1. Introducing the Disabled Gaze, Jaipreet Virdi and Jennifer Van Horn (University of Victoria, Canada & University of Delaware, USA)Part One: Materializing2. ‘compelled to pad and wad’: Spinal Curvatures and Dress in Mid-19th-Century America, Emily Bach (National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA)3. The Unperfected Frame: Orthopedic Fitness Devices and the Making of the Modern Healthy Woman in Britain and the United States, Madeleine Ware (Yale University, USA)4. People of the Eye, Ann Hewitt (Detroit Institute of Arts, USA)Part Two: Gaining5. ‘Without the Help of a Perfect Limb’: Investigating Martha Ann Honeywell’s Material Legacy, Rebecca Lo Presti (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA )6. Pictorial Evocations: Deafness and Multisensory Reception of Early Modern Art, Barbara A. Kaminska (Sam Houston State University, USA)7. Performing the Disability Gaze: The Case of Auguste Renoir, Elizabeth Guffey (Purchase College, USA)Part Three: Resisting8. Blind Venetians Gaze Back: Confraternity, Neighborhood, and Disability in Early Modern Venice, Julia A. DeLancey (University of Mary Washington, USA)9. Telegraphic Mesmerism, John J. Garcia (American Antiquarian Society, USA)10. The ‘Tactile Gaze’ and 19th-Century Print Materials for the Blind, Amanda Stuckey (Central Penn College, USA)Part Four: Engaging11. Gazing Back: Photographic Histories of Disability, Cath Cartman (Photographer and independent scholar, UK)12. The Disabled Graze: A Tactile Approach to Tchotchkes, Hallie Ableman (University of Iowa, USA)13. Phenomenal Bodies: Exploring Disability in Scottish Academic Collections, Emily J. Hanson & Billy Rough (University of St Andrews, UK)14. The FM Unit: A Deaf Musical Response to Hearing Exams, Frank Mondelli (University of Delaware, USA)Index