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Note: Literaturangaben , Previous ed.: 2006 , Part I: Historical perspectives ; Constructing normalcy , Part II: The politics of disability ; Construction of deafness , Part III: Stigma and illness ; Stigma: an enigma demystified , Part IV: Theorizing disability ; Reassigning meaning , Part VII: Fiction, memoir, and poetry ; Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart , Part V: Identities and intersectionalities ; The end of identity politics: on disability as an unstable category , Part VI: Disability and culture ; Cripping heterosexuality, queering able-bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body , A brief history of discrimination and disabled people , "A silent exile on this earth": the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century , Disability and the human genome , Medieval constructions of blindness in France and England , (Post) colonizing disability , Abortion and disability: who should and should not inhabit the world: , Disability rights and selective abortion , Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization , The dimensions of disability oppression , A mad fight: psychiatry and disability activism , AIDS and its metaphors , Beholding , On (almost) passing , Enabling disability: rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship , Aesthetic nervousness , The social model of disability , Narrative prosthesis , The unexceptional schizophrenic: a post-postmodern introduction , Unspeakable conversations , Helen and Frida , "I am not one of the" and "Cripple lullaby" , "Beauty and variations" , Selections from Cripple Poetics , Selections from The Cry of the Gull , Selections from Planet of the Blind , Disability and the theory of complex embodiment--for identity politics in a new register , Toward a feminist theory of disability , Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory , Is disability studies actually white disability studies? , Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence , Deaf people: a different center , Minority politics in Korea: disability, interraciality, and gender , This is what we think , The vulnerable articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney , Sculpting body ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the public display of disability , "When black women start going on Prozac....": the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me , The enfreakment of photography , Blindness and visual culture: an eyewitness account , Disability, life narrative, and representation , Autism as culture

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