Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (Paperback, 20, Twentieth Anniv)

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
I. Politicizing Bodily Differences
1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction
2. Theorizing Disability
II. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites
3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940
4. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps
5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde
Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index