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Gendering Disability
"Based on scholarship presented at a three-day conference ... organized by the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University, March 1-3, 2001"--Preliminary page vii.
Contents
Positions -- Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / Adrienne Asch
Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / Sumi Colligan
Interpreting Women / Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
-- Desire and Identity --
Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / Alison Kafer
Fighting 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. Kudlick
Bodies in Trouble : Identity, Embodiment and Disability / Kristin Lindgren
Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / Russell P. Shuttleworth
-- Arts and Embodiment --
Helen Keller's Love Life / Georgina Kleege
Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / Sarah E. Chinn
Disability, Gender and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo / Robin Adl̈e Greeley
"But, Mother-I'm-crippled!" Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance / Ann M. Fox
-- Citizens and Consumers --
Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / Lisa Schur
Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / Carol Kaufman-Scarborough
Women and Emerging Disabilities / Melissa J. McNeil and Thilo Kroll
The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / Corbett Joan O'Toole.
Contents
Positions -- Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / Adrienne Asch
Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / Sumi Colligan
Interpreting Women / Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
-- Desire and Identity --
Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / Alison Kafer
Fighting 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. Kudlick
Bodies in Trouble : Identity, Embodiment and Disability / Kristin Lindgren
Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / Russell P. Shuttleworth
-- Arts and Embodiment --
Helen Keller's Love Life / Georgina Kleege
Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / Sarah E. Chinn
Disability, Gender and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo / Robin Adl̈e Greeley
"But, Mother-I'm-crippled!" Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance / Ann M. Fox
-- Citizens and Consumers --
Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / Lisa Schur
Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / Carol Kaufman-Scarborough
Women and Emerging Disabilities / Melissa J. McNeil and Thilo Kroll
The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / Corbett Joan O'Toole.
328 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2004
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