...This introduction begins with an analysis of the centrality of the body and embodiment in Joyce’s writings, as well as the difficult problem of disability metaphors, especially as used by Joyce’s critics. In then provides a brief overview of the aims and goals of literary disability studies...

... Elizabeth Humanness Disability Habeas Corpus Act Law Personhood Property Race Weheliye Alexander Black women Bush Barbara Fertility rates Morrissey Marietta Sugar colonies Diabetes Diseases Washing clothes Pain Scarry Elaine Slaves Antislavery literature Literature Medicine Schroeder...

... Religious identity Sex Age category Disability Health Infirmity Lead poisoning Manipulated remains Mortuary context Physical body Science Theory divide Slave owner Social body Social theory Status United Kingdom Age identity Life course Mummy New Archaeology Osteobiography...

... of analysis such as social welfare, health care, disability, and employment invariably come into sharper focus. But the essays also prod us into recognizing the centrality of veterans’ issues and politics to modern state formation, the rise of interest group politics, understandings of citizenship...

... and disabled members of this household have gone over time, to find solidarity, community, and family. Great Britain Hamburg International Short Film Festival Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival International Short Film Festival Hamburg Joneses The documentary short film Longinotto Moby...

.... The author discusses notions of physical impairment and “disability” as they may have been perceived by the inhabitants of this late prehistoric village. Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Project Death of Axed Man of Mosfell Plaza G woman adulthood of School of American Research Schwartz Douglas W Diet...

...This chapter charts the evolution of the “architecture of injury” designed to heal and house disabled veterans following the Civil War and World War I. In doing so, it examines the spatial dimensions of federal disability policy in three built environments: post–Civil War soldiers’ homes, World War...

...”. The discussion then shifts to “A Painful Case”, with highlights the three cases of pain as allusion to the blatant depiction of the emotional disability of Mr. Duffy and the meanings behind the words in the story title. Byrd William Dowland John Jonson Ben Letters II Moods A Portrait of the Artist...

... and Mycobacterium lepromatosis, are outlined, as well as how a relative strength of a person’s immune system determines how leprosy affects the body. Although leprosy is curable, associated stigma and disability remain common challenges for people with the disease in parts of the world. The goals...

... Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. This essay follows recent scholarship on embodiment and disability to investigate the further import of the stripling in Joyce’s “epic of the body.” In particular, this essay argues that when read in a disability studies context the stripling adds to an understanding...

...This chapter seeks a triangulation of (post)modern music / sound art, disability, and the prose writing of Finnegans Wake. The pivot point of this orientation is certainly disability. While readings of Joyce in relation to (modern) classical music are many (a tradition having...

...This chapter examines the linguistic and discursive construction of access to the healthcare system by transgender and disabled people in Colombian media. The study shows that Colombian media relies on spectacular and porn inspirational figures that conceal the role of the Neoliberal...

...—including Columbus, Leni Riefenstahl, and tourists—this play focuses on redefining the revolution through queer, black, and femme disability. The aesthetic of the staging is as disorganized as Riefenstahl’s work is fluid, although both work to undermine the univocality of the state. Using queer theory from...

... overcrowding Jenkins Elizabeth Tampa Tjoflat Gerald Young George C Borders William Hastings Alcee Johnson Frank Romano Frank Romano Thomas United States v Borders Alaimo Anthony A Doar John Gesell Gerhard A Judicial Conduct and Disability Act Judicial Conference of the United States Sharp G...

... of the diseases they endured, the injuries they acquired, and the smoking of clay-pipes they enjoyed. The study has also given an insight into who was granted access to the workhouse during the Famine crisis, and how for some a physical disability added to the suffering of the Famine. The value of archaeology...

..., in dismantling Jim Crow. Every disabled black veteran who secured hospitalization or compensation was celebrated for achieving a minor victory in the overall campaign for equal rights, helping these men avoid feeling emasculated by their dependence on government aid. The civil rights movement thus inadvertently...

... woman who was wheelchair bound at a conference that was not accessible. This article analyzes these intersecting identities and illustrates how McMurray’s contributions to the conference broadened the women’s rights movement to include issues of race and disability. Henry Diana Mara McMurray Georgia...

... asymmetry in Leprosy Periostitis Tuberculosis Acute flaccid paralysis AFP Disability at Arroyo Hondo Grave goods of Burial Osteobiography Bioarchaeology Poliomyelitis Disability Paleopathology Tell Abraq United Arab Emirates 114 Tell Abraq is a multiperiod settlement on the Persian Gulf coast...

... depictions of a character who is deaf and whose disability underscores bodily and sensuous lack. This chapter draws on disability theory, modernist sound studies, and historical accounts of 1960s technologies to demonstrate how Bowen argues for a more expansive sensorium by illustrating the harmful effects...

...This chapter concerns one of Joyce's least examined stories in Dubliners. The chapter close-reads the story through the lens of disability studies and discusses Joyce's use of a disabled main character, "Hoppy" Holohan, to investigate the fraught relationship between disability...