Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Part 1: Ancient History through the Seventeenth Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors

1. Hephaestus Represented: a Mªtis-based Inquiry

2. The Role of Dwarfs in Tang Postmortem Elite Life

3. Disability and Poverty at the Brancacci Chapel

4. Disability at the Edge of War: Gendered Violence in the Graphic Practice of Urs Graf

Part 2: Seventeenth-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens

5. Destierro and Desenga±o: The Disabled Body in Golden Age Spanish Portraiture

6. An Inartistic Interest: Civil War Medicine, Disability, and the Art of Thomas Eakins

7. Empty Sleeves and Bloody Shirts: Disabled American Civil War Veterans and Presidential Campaigns, 1864â"1880

Part 3: Modernism, Metaphor, and Corporeality

8. Deaf Gain: Toulouse-Lautrecâs Early Training with Ren© Princeteau

9. Manetâs Syphilis: Masculinity, Debility, and Adaptation in the 1880s

10. Facially Disfigured Veterans of World War I in Present-day Art: An Art Historical Analysis Against the Background of Medical History

11. Disability Metaphor and American Individualism: Beyond the Glass Menagerie

12. "Building the World of Tomorrow": Disability, Eugenics, and Sculpture at the 1939 New York Worldâs Fair

13. Aesthetics of Disability and the Hybrid Body in Louise Bourgeoisâs Femme Maison

Part 4: Contemporary Art: Crips, Care, and Portraiture

14. Listening to the Queer-crip Body of Derek Jarmanâs Blue

15. Collaborative Portraiture: A Feminist Disability Studies Approach to the Work of Riva Lehrer and Tanya Raabe-Webber

16. On Carolyn Lazardâs Support System (for Tina, Park, and Bob): An Account