Table of Contents

List of Contributors.
Disability as a fluid state: Introduction.
“Feeling normal” and “feeling disabled”.
Out of a coma and into a wheelchair: Social and physical accessibility and the construction of disabled identity.
At the interstices of classification: Notes on the category of disability in sub-Saharan Africa.
A relational approach to the development of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities.
From “Survival of the Fittest” to “Fitness for All” to “Who defines fitness anyway?”: 100 years of (US) sociological theory on disability.
Regarding disability: Perceptions of protection under the Americans with disabilities act.
“Sit home and collect the check”: race, class, and the social construction of disability identity.
Activism, models, identities, and opportunities: A preliminary test of a typology of disability orientations.
Deaf women's work experiences: Negotiating gender, ability, and theories of resistance.
Why does growth hurt? The dual role of normalization and stigmatization in the experience of growth hormone treatment.
Disproportionality: A sociological perspective of the identification by schools of students with learning disabilities.
About the Authors.
Research in Social Science and Disability.
Research in Social Science and Disability.
Copyright page.