Acknowledgments
Reimagining Disability and Gender through Feminist Disability
Studies:
An Introduction / Kim Q. Hall
Part 1. Toward a Theoretical Framework for Feminist Disability
Studies
1. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie
Garland-Thomson
2. Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question
of Disability / Ellen Samuels
Part 2. Refiguring Literature
3. Invisible Disability: Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen / Susannah
B. Mintz
4. Revisiting the Corpus of the Madwoman: Further Notes toward a
Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Mental Illness / Elizabeth J.
Donaldson
Part 3. Interrogating Fitness: Nation, Identity, and
Citizenship
5. The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and
Disability in Wartime / Nirmala Erevelles
6. Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of
Rehabilitation / Jennifer C. James
7. Revising the Subject: Disability as "Third Dimension" in Clear
Light of Day and You Have Come Back / Cindy LaCom
8. A Heritage of Ableist Rhetoric in American Feminism from the
Eugenics Period / Sharon Lamp and W. Carol Cleigh
Part 4. Sexual Agency and Queer Feminist Futures
9. Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency / Abby
Wilkerson
10. Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety,
and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians / Alison Kafer
Part 5. Inclusions, Exclusions, and Transformations
11. Disparate but Disabled: Fat Embodiment and Disability Studies /
April Herndon
12. Chronic Illness and Educational Equity: The Politics of
Visibility / Karen Elizabeth Jung
13. Res(Crip)ting Feminist Theater through Disability Theater:
Selections from the DisAbility Project / Ann M. Fox and Joan
Lipkin
Contributors
Index
Provides an integration of feminist theory with disability studies
Kim Q. Hall is Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member in the Women's Studies and Sustainable Development programs at Appalachian State University. She is editor (with Chris Cuomo) of Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections.
"Puts feminist theory and disability studies into conversation with one another, not simply to make for an 'additive' approach, but to transform both fields of inquiry." Diane Herndl, Iowa State University "A volume of the highest scholarly quality that extends both feminist theory and disability studies." Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University
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