Gendering Disability

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and a past director of the University's Institute for Research on Women. Beth Hutchison is assistant director of the Institute.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / BONNIE G. SMITHPART I. Positions Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / ADRIENNE ASCHWhy the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights, from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / SUMI COLLIGANInterpreting Women / BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANNIntegrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSONPART II. Desire and Identity Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / ALISON KAFERFighting 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. KUDLICKBodies in Trouble: Identity, Embodiment, and Disability / KRISTIN LINDGRENDisabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTHPART III. Arts and Embodiment Helen Keller's Love Life / GEORGINA KLEEGEFeeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / SARAH E. CHINNDisability, 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. FoxPART IV. Citizens and Consumers Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / LISA SCHURIntegrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGHWomen and Emerging Disabilities / MELISSA J. MCNEIL AND THILO KROLLThe Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / CORBETT JOAN O'TOOLENotes on ContributorsIndex

"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) "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)