The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis.

New York ; London : Routledge, 1997.

x, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Constructing normalcy: the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / Martha L. Edwards -- Spoken daggers, deaf ears, and silent mouths: fantasies of deafness in early modern England / Jennifer L. Nelson and Bradley S. Berens -- Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair / Margaret A. Winzer -- Universalizing marginality: how Europe became deaf in the eighteenth century / Lennard J. Davis -- A silent exile on this Earth: the metaphoric construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- Constructions of deafness / Harlan Lane -- Advertising the acceptably employable image: disability and capitalism / Harlan Hahn -- Abortion and disability: who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard -- Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman -- Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Nurturance, sexuality, and women with disabilities: the example of women and literature / Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Feminist theory, the body and the disabled figure / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Integrating disability studies into the existing curriculum: the example of "women and literature" at Howard University / Rosemarie Garland Thomason -- Silence is not without voice: including deaf culture within multicultural curricula / H. Dirksen L. Bauman and Jennifer Drake -- Toward a poetics of vision, space and the body: sign language and literary theory / H. Dirksen L. Baumann -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Modernist freaks and postmodernist geeks / David Mitchell -- Disability and postcoloniality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and third-world novels / Sanjeev Kumor Uprety -- Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Queen of the girls / Julia Dolphin Trahan -- Poems / Kenny Fries -- Sex and single gimp / Billy Golfus.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-444) and index.