Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 1 Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson 2 Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability 13 Daniel J. Wilson 3 The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public Discourse 36 Jeffrey A. Brune 4 The Menstrual Masquerade 58 David Linton 5 “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South 71 Dea H. Boster 6 Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus 99 Peta Cox vi Î Contents 7 Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport 111 Michael A. Rembis 8 The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual Disability 142 Allison C. Carey 9 Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf Education 167 Kristen C. Harmon Contributors 199 Index 201 ...