Vol 25, No 4 (2005)

Freakery, Part 2; Emerging Issues in the Study of Disability Policy and Law, Part 1

Table of Contents

Prefatory Matter

Editors' Preface HTML
Beth Haller, Corinne Kirchner
News and Notes HTML
Susan Baglieri

Articles

Performance or Participation...Pluralism or Hegemony? Images of Disability and Gender in Sports 'n Spokes Magazine HTML
Marie Hardin, Brent Hardin
Misfit as Metaphor: The Question and the Contradiction of Lupus in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" HTML
Carl S. Horner, Elena V. Barnes
"What seems to be the problem?" A myriad of terms for mental health and behavioral concerns HTML
Michelle O'Reilly

Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2

Guest Editor's Introduction HTML
Michael Chemers

Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: Commentary

Staring at the Other HTML
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Examining the Role of Disability in Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small HTML
David Church

Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: General Papers

In The Maim of the Father: The Discourse of Disability in French-Maghrebi Immigrant Texts HTML
Madelaine Hron
Aesthetic Traces in Unlikely Places: Re-visioning the Freak in 19th-Century American Photography HTML
Sheila Moeschen
In The Shadow of the Freakshow: The Impact of Freakshow Tradition on the Display and Understanding of Disability History in Museums HTML
Richard Sandell, Annie Delin, Jocelyn Dodd, Jackie Gay
Caliban and Coney Island: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Performance HTML
Susan Antebi
Funhouse Mirrors and Freak Show Dreams: Construction of Narrative Voice in Terry Healey's At Face Value HTML
Catherine Scott
Biographies of Scale HTML
Kerry Duff

Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: Book and Film Reviews

Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation HTML
Michael M. Chemers

Cultural Commentary

Disability Rights: The Overlooked Civil Rights Issue HTML
Doris Zames Fleischer, Frieda Zames
Hurricane Katrina, Race, Class, Tragedy, and Charity HTML
Anne Finger

Theme Section: Emerging Issues in the Study of Disability Policy and Law, Part 1

Guest Editors' Introduction HTML
Peter Blanck

Creative Works

Stealing Yeses HTML
Nancy Scott

Policy and Law, Part 1: Welfare Models

New Paradigms of Disability in Social Security Law and Policy in Australia: Implications for Exclusion or Participation HTML
Sarah Parker, Bettina Cass
Reforming Medicaid Incentives that Institutionalize People with Disabilities and Destroy Families: A Policy Note HTML
Mary Giliberti

Policy and Law, Part 1: Empirical Studies of Employment and Economic Advancement

Cost and Effectiveness of Accommodations in the Workplace: Preliminary Results of a Nationwide Study HTML
D.J. Hendricks, Linda C. Batiste, Anne Hirsh, Helen Schartz, Peter Blanck
A Study of the Accessibility of Ten States' Web Services and their Policies on Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities HTML
David W. Klein, Daniel Kresowik, LeeAnn McCoy

Policy and Law, Part 1: International Disability Law

A Progressive Law with Weak Enforcement?: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong's Disability Law HTML
Carole J. Petersen
Israel's Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law: Current Status and Future Directions HTML
Arie Rimmerman, Tal Araten-Bergman, Shirley Avrami, Faisal Azaiza

Special Topic: Pedagogy in Disability Studies

Disability Studies Pedagogy, Usability and Universal Design HTML
Jay Dolmage

Book and Film Reviews

Storytelling (film) HTML
David Church
Conjoined Twins: An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia HTML
Steve Ferzacca
Elder Abuse: Selected Papers for the Prague World Congress on Family Violence HTML
Cathy Thornton
Foucault and the Government of Disability HTML
Robyn Fishman
One Soldier's Story HTML
John M. Kinder
My Depression HTML
Alex Lubet
Many Ways to be Deaf HTML
Stephen Weiner
Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Guilded Age and Extraordinary Exhibitions HTML
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Literacy and Deaf People HTML
Lillie Ransom
Saved! (film) HTML
Beth Haller
The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of Government's Protection of the Handicapped HTML
Heather Munro Prescott
The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of Government's Protection of the Handicapped HTML
Arthur Blaser

Eulogy

Speaking of Frieda HTML
Doris Zames Fleischer



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