Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Introduction
Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen

Part I. CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS

1. The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography
Kim E. Nielsen

2. Disability History and Greco-Roman Antiquity
C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose

3. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages
Irina Metzler

4. Disability in the Pre-modern Arab World
Sara Scalenghe

5. Disability and the History of Eugenics
Michael Rembis

6. Social History of Medicine and Disability History
Catherine J. Kudlick

7. Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability History
Katherine Ott

8. Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability History
Bess Williamson

9. Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian
Penny Richards and Susan Burch

Part II. WORK

10. Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain
Daniel Blackie

11. Disability and Work in South Asia and the United Kingdom
Jane Buckingham

12. Disability and Work in British West Africa
Jeff Grischow

13. Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United States
Paul Lawrie
14. Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United States
Audra Jennings

Part III. INSTITUTIONS

15. Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Pieter Vierestraete and Ylva Söderfeldt

16. Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia and New Zealand
Catharine Coleborne

17. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New Zealand
Angela McCarthy

18. Institutions for People with Disabilities in North America
Steven Noll

Part IV. REPRESENTATIONS

19. Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
David M. Turner

20. Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum Stage
Jenifer L. Barclay

21. Polio and Disability in Cold War Hungary
Dora Vargha

22. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North America
Leslie J. Reagan

23. Disability in Modern Chinese Cinema
Steven L. Riep

Part V. MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITIES

24. Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf Communities
Joseph J. Murray

25. The Disability Rights Movement in the United States
Lindsey Patterson

26. The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United States
Regina Kunzel

27. Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of War
David A. Gerber


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About the Author

Michael Rembis is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. He has written or edited many books and articles, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories (2014); and Disabling Domesticity (2016).

Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012 after two decades at the University of California, Davis. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France.

Kim E. Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo, where she also teaches courses in History and Women's & Gender Studies. She is the author of A Disability History of the United States (2012).