Disability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories. Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(8) BONNIE G. SMITH PART I. Positions Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity 9(36) ADRIENNE ASCH Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies 45(16) SUMI COLLIGAN Interpreting Women 61(12) BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANN Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 73(34) ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON PART II. Desire and Identity Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community 107(12) ALISON KAFER Fighting Polio Like a Man: Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Aging 119(15) DANIEL J. WILSON "Disability" and "Divorce ": A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates His Options in 1756 134(11) CATHERINE J. KUDLICK Bodies in Trouble: Identity, Embodiment, and Disability 145(21) KRISTIN LINDGREN Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire 166(15) RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTH PART III. Arts and Embodiment Helen Keller's Love Life 181(11) GEORGINA KLEEGE Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch 192(24) SARAH E. CHINN Disability, Gender, and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo 216(17) ROBIN ADÈLE GREELEY "But, Mother I'm-crippled!": Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance 233(20) ANN M. FOX PART IV. Citizens and Consumers Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities 253(19) LISA SCHUR Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices 272(14) CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGH Women and Emerging Disabilities 286(8) MELISSA J. MCNEIL AND THILO KROLL The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement 294(7) CORBETT JOAN O'TOOLE Notes on Contributors 301(4) Index 305