Gendering Disability

by Smith, Bonnie G.; Hutchison, Beth

• ISBN13: 9780813533735
• ISBN10: 0813533732
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets of practices and ways of being. Contributors to this innovative collection explore the intersection of gender and disability in the arts, consumer culture, healing, the personal and private realms, and the appearance of disability in the public sphere-both in public fantasies and in public activism. Beginning as separate enterprises that followed activist and scholarly paths, gender and disability studies have reached a point where they can move beyond their boundaries for a common landscape to inspire new areas of inquiry. Whether from a perspective in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, or arts, the shared subject matter of gender and disability studies-the body, social and cultural hierarchy, identity, discrimination and inequality, representation, and political activism-insistently calls for deeper conversation. This volume provides fresh findings not only about the discrimination practiced against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between these two categories.

Table of Contents

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