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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Perspectives | |
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| Constructing Normalcy; The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece | |
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| "A Silent Exile on This Earth": The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Other Arms Race | |
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| (Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality, and the Human Genome Project | |
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| The Politics of Disability | |
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| Construction of Deafness | |
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| Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World? | |
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| Disability Rights and Selective Abortion | |
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| Universal Design; The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization | |
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| Stigma and Illness | |
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| Selections from Stigma | |
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| Stigma: An Enigma Demystified | |
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| Aids and Its Metaphors | |
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| Theorizing Disability | |
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| Reassigning Meaning | |
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| Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body | |
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| On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of Impairment | |
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| The Social Model of Disability | |
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| Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor | |
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| The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview | |
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| The Question of Identity | |
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| The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category | |
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| Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability | |
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| Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory | |
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| Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal | |
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| "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 | |
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| Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence | |
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| The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney | |
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| Interlude 1: On (Almost) Passing | |
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| Deaf People: A Different Center | |
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| A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism | |
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| Disability and Culture | |
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| Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language and Literary Theory | |
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| The Enfreakment of Photography | |
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| Blindness and Art | |
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| Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account | |
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| Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation | |
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| Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry | |
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| Helen and Frida | |
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| Poems | |
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| Poems | |
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| Selections from The Cry of the Gull | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |