Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
Contents
The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category -- Crips strike back : the rise of disability studies -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability -- Criminal statements : homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt--eighteenth-century shipwrecked sailor -- Who put the The in the novel? : identity politics and disability in novel studies -- The rule of normalcy : politics and disability in the U.S.A. (United States of Ability) -- Bending over backwards : narcissism, the ADA, and the courts -- Go to the margins of the class : disability and hate crimes -- A voyage out (or is it back?) : class and disability in my life.