Gendering Disability

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(8) BONNIE G. SMITH PART I. Positions Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity 9(36) ADRIENNE ASCH Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies 45(16) SUMI COLLIGAN Interpreting Women 61(12) BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANN Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 73(34) ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON PART II. Desire and Identity Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community 107(12) ALISON KAFER Fighting Polio Like a Man: Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Aging 119(15) DANIEL J. WILSON "Disability" and "Divorce ": A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates His Options in 1756 134(11) CATHERINE J. KUDLICK Bodies in Trouble: Identity, Embodiment, and Disability 145(21) KRISTIN LINDGREN Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire 166(15) RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTH PART III. Arts and Embodiment Helen Keller's Love Life 181(11) GEORGINA KLEEGE Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch 192(24) SARAH E. CHINN Disability, Gender, and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo 216(17) ROBIN ADÈLE GREELEY "But, Mother I'm-crippled!": Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance 233(20) ANN M. FOX PART IV. Citizens and Consumers Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities 253(19) LISA SCHUR Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices 272(14) CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGH Women and Emerging Disabilities 286(8) MELISSA J. MCNEIL AND THILO KROLL The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement 294(7) CORBETT JOAN O'TOOLE Notes on Contributors 301(4) Index 305