Extraordinary Bodies

Table of Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. Politicizing Bodily Differences -- 1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction -- 2. Theorizing Disability -- Illustrations -- 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