Part 1: Historical Perspectives 1. Lennard Davis, Constructing Normalcy 2. Colin Barnes, A Brief History of Discrimination and Disabled People 3. Douglas Baynton, 'A Silent Exile on This Earth': The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century 4. James C. Wilson, Disability and the Human Genome 5. Edward Wheatley, Medieval Constructions of Blindness in France and England Part 2: The Politics of Disability 6. Harlan Lane , Construction of Deafness 7. Mark Sherry, (Post)colonising Disability 8. Ruth Hubbard, Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World? 9. Marsha Saxton, Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 10. Michael Davidson, Universal Design: The work of Disability in an Age of Globalization 11. James Charlton, The Dimensions of Disability Oppression 12. Bradley Lewis, A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism Part 3: Stigma and Illness 13. Lerita M. Coleman Brown, Stigma: An Enigma Demystified 14. Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors 15. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Beholding 16. Brenda Brueggemann, On (Almost) Passing Part 4: Theorizing Disability 17. Simi Linton, Reassigning Meaning 18. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, Enabling Kinship 19. Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness 20. Tom Shakespeare, The Social Model of Disability 21. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis 22. Catherine Prendergast, The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction Part 5: Identities and Intersectionalities 23. Lennard Davis, The End of Identity Politics: On Disability as an Unstable Category 24. Tobin Siebers, Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment-For Identity Politics in a New Register 25. Susan Wendell, Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability 26. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 27. Chris Bell, Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies? 28. Robert McRuer, Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 29. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, Deaf People: A Different Center 30. R. A. R. Edwards, Hearing Aids Are Not Deaf: A Historical Perspective on Technology in the Deaf World 31. Eunjung Kim, Minority Politics in Korea: Disability, Interaciality, and Gender 32. Daniel Docherty, Richard Hughes, Patricia Phillips, David Corbett, Brendan Regan, Andrew Barber, Michael Adams, Kathy Boxall, Ian Kaplan, Shayma Izzidien, This Is What We Think Part 6: Disability and Culture 33. Cynthia Barounis, Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body 34. , The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney 35. Ann Millett-Gallant, Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability 36. Anna Mollow, When Black Women Start Going on Prozac....' The Poltics of Race, Gender, and Emotional Distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me 37. David Hevey, The Enfreakment of Photography 38. , Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account 39. G. Thomas Couser, Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation 40. Joseph N. Straus, Autism as Culture Part 7: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry 41. Eli Clare, Stones in my Pockets, Stones in my Heart 42. Harriet McBryde Johnson, Unspeakable Conversations 43. Anne Finger, Helen and Friday 44. Cheryl Marie Wade, 'I Am Not One of the' and `Cripple Lullaby' 45. Kenny Fries, Beauty and Variations 46. Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, Selections from Cripple Poetics 47. Emanuelle Laborit, Selections from The Cry of the Gull 48. Steve Kuusisto, Selections from Planet of the Blind