Gendering Disability

By: Bonnie G. Smith (Editor and Contribution By and Allison Kafer and Carol Kaufman-Scarborough and Georgina Kleege and Thilo Kroll and Catherine J. Kudlick and Kristin Lindgren and Melissa J. Mcneil and Corbett Joan O'Toole and Lisa Schur and Russell P. Shuttleworth and Beth Hutchison and Daniel J. Wilson and Adrienne Asch and Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Robin Adele Greeley and Sarah E. Chinn and Sumi Colligan and Ann M. Fox

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Synopsis: 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.