Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Taxonomies: disability and deaf performances in the process of self-definition. Delivering disability, willing speech / Brenda Jo Brueggemann
  • Dares to stares: disabled women performance artists and the dynamics of staring / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
  • Performing deaf identity: toward a continuum of deaf performance / Jessica Berson
  • Aesthetic distance and the fiction of disability / Jim Ferris
  • pt. 2. Disability/deaf aesthetics, audiences, and the public sphere. Shifting Apollo's frame: challenging the body aesthetic in theater dance / Owen Smith
  • The National Theatre of the Deaf: artistic freedom and cultural responsibility in the use of American sign language / Shannon Bradford
  • Shifting strengths: the Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
  • Theater without a hero: The making of P.H.*reaks: The hidden history of people with disabilities / Victoria Ann Lewis
  • pt. 3. Rehabilitating the medical model. Performing disability, problematizing cure / Johnson Cheu
  • Bodies, hysteria, pain: staging the invisible / Petra Kuppers
  • Performance as therapy: Spalding Gray's autopathographic monologues / Philip Auslander
  • The facilitation of learning-disabled arts: a cultural perspective / Giles Perring
  • Beyond therapy: "performance" work with people who have profound and multiple disabilities / Melissa C. Nash
  • Dementia and the performance of self / Anne Davis Basting
  • pt. 4. Performing disability in daily life. Looking blind: a revelation of culture's eye / Tanya Titchkosky
  • Men in motion: disability and the performance of masculinity / Lenore Manderson and Susan Peake
  • Disrupting a disembodied status quo: invisible theater as subversive pedagogy / Maureen Connolly and Tom Craig
  • The tyranny of neutral: disability and actor training / Carrie Sandahl
  • pt. 5. Reading disability in dramatic literature. Unfixing disability in Lord Byron's The deformed transformed / Sharon L. Snyder
  • On Medea, bad mother of the Greek drama (disability, character, genopolitics) / Marcy J. Epstein
  • Disability's Invisibility in Joan Schenkar's Signs of life and Heather McDonald's An almost holy picture / Stacy Wolf
  • Reconsidering identity politics, essentialism, and dismodernism: an afterword / Peggy Phelan.