University of Michigan Press
Edition Details: Mitchell, David T. and Snyder, Sharon L., editors. Foreword by James I. Porter
Physical Details: xiv + 299 pp.; notes
Description Contents: Mitchell, David T., Snyder, Sharon L.: Introduction: Disability studies and the double bind of representation. Edwards, Martha L.: Constructions of physical disability in the ancient Greek world: The community concept. Davis, Lennard J.: Nude Venuses, Mesusa's body, and phantom limbs: Disability and visuality. Yuan, David D.: Disfigurement and reconstruction in Oliver Wendell Holmes's “The human wheel, its spokes and felloes”. Pernick, Martin S.: Defining the defective: Eugenics, aesthetics, and mass culture in early-20th-century America. Gerber, David A.: In search of Al Schmid: War hero, blinded veteran, everyman. Longmore, Paul K.: Conspicuous contribution and American cultural dilemmas: Telethon rituals of cleansing and renewal. Nussbaum, Felicity A.: Feminotopias: The pleasures of “deformity” in mid-18th-century England. Frawley, Maria: “A prisoner to the couch”: Harriet Martineau, invalidism, and self-representation. LaCom, Cindy: “It is more than lame”: Female disability, sexuality, and the maternal in the 19th-century novel. Gordon, Jan: The “talking cure” (again): Gossip and the paralyzed patriarchy. Hamilton, Elizabeth C.: From social welfare to civil rights: The representation of disability in 20th-century German literature. Thomson, Rosemarie Garland: Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde: Revising black female subjectivity. Molina, Caroline: Muteness and mutilation: The aesthetics of disability in Jane Campion's The piano. Miner, Madonne: “Making up the stories as we go along”: Men, women, and narratives of disability.
Review Lang, H.G. (1999) Review of "The body and physical difference: Discourses of disability". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 100-1).
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