Beginning with Disability: A Primer

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Defining Disability
	1. Introduction
	2. Becoming Disabled
	3. Reassigning Meaning
	4. Disability Rhetoric
	5. A Comparison of Disability With Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Statuses
	6. Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains
Part 2: Deafness and Deaf Culture
	7. Talking Culture: Deaf People and Disability Studies
	8. Stop Sharing Those Feel-Good Cochlear Implant Videos
	9. “Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language”
Part 3: The History of Disability
	10. Disability History
	11. Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882–1924
	12. On the Margins of Citizenship: Disability Activism and the Intellectually Disabled
Part 4 Disability, Identity, and Social Justice
	13. Disability and Race
	14. Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification With/In Disability Studies
	15. Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability
	16. What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago
	17. How Misunderstanding Disability Leads to Police Violence
	18. Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping the Mentally Ill
Part 5 Experiencing Disability
	19. The Spoon Theory
	20. Ableism and a Watershed Experience
	21. O.C.D. in N.Y.C.
	22. Living With Schizophrenia: The Importance of Routine
	23. The Two-in-One
Part 6 Disability and Culture
	24. If Hollywood’s So Creative, Why Can’t It Tell New Stories About People With Disabilities?
	25. Little People, Big Woes in Hollywood: Low Pay, Degrading Jobs, and a Tragic Death
	26. The Ethics of Hodor: Disability in Game of Thrones
	27. From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally
	28. The New Kid in Primetime: What Speechless Has to Say
	29. An Advertising Aesthetic: Real Beauty and Visual Impairment
	30. Your Body Isn’t Your World: The Heroes of the Mad Max Video Game and Disability
	31. Autis(i)m and Representation: Autis(i)m, Disability Simulation Games, and Neurodiversity
	32. Why I’m a Crippled Poet
Part 7 The Disability Yet to Come
	33. Disability Studies in K-12 Education
	34. Presuming Competence
	35. Disability and Innovation
	36. “What Will You Gain When You Lose?” Deafness, Disability Gain, Creativity, and Human Difference
	37. Disability Studies: A New Normal
Part 8 Subject to Debate
	38. Disability and Sexual Objectification
		A. Longing for the Male Gaze
		B. Disabled Women and Sexual Objectification (or the Lack Thereof)
	39. Sexual Surrogacy
		Disability and Paying for Sex
	40. Prenatal Testing and Abortion
		A. The Benefits of Prenatal Testing
		B. Disabled U.K. Lawmaker: End Abortion Discrimination Against the Disabled
	41. Assisted Suicide
		A. The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws
		B. Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal
	42. Cochlear Implants
		A. Infants May Benefit from Advanced Cochlear Implants
		B. Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to be “Fixed”
	43. Nondisabled Actors in Disabled Roles
		A. We Wouldn’t Accept Actors Blacking Up, So Why Applaud “Cripping Up”?
		B. Able-Bodied Actors in Disabled Roles: Modern-day “Blacking Up” . . . Or Is It?
Sources
Index