Mar 28 Introduction to the course
   No reading

Mar 30 What is disability? Terminology, stereotypes, definitions
   [most important] Simi Linton, "Reclamation" and "Reassigning Meaning" (pdf 1.9Mb) (Word)
   Robert Murphy, "Encounters: The Body Silent in America" (pdf 200kb)
   Jack Nelson, "When Stereotypes Tell the Story" and "Myths and Facts about People with Disabilities" (pdf 150kb) (web link NCDJ) (web link Easter Seals)
 

Apr 4 Disability Studies and the social model
   Joseph Shapiro, No Pity, Introduction and Ch 1 (textbook)
   Simi Linton, "Disability Studies/Not Disability Studies" (pdf 200kb, this is the same text as Ch 6 of her book, in the course reader)
   [Homework #1 paraphrase] John Hockenberry, "Fear of Bees" (pdf 160kb) (Word)

Apr 6 Inventing the ab/normal: history of disability
   Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, "Disability: A Choice of Models" & "Disabling Societies" (pdf 360kb)
   [Homework #2 paraphrase] Alice Dreger, "Freeing the Irish Giant" (pdf 550kb)
   Lisa Blumberg, "Public Stripping" (pdf 130kb)
   Laura Hershey, "Lunch Break" (pdf 15kb)

Apr 11 Ableism in everyday life, attitudes, social structures
   Video in class: When Billy Broke His Head [discuss models & representations]
   Billy Golfus, "The Do-Gooders" (pdf 84kb)
   Mary Johnson, "A Test of Wills: Jerry Lewis, Jerry's Orphans and the Telethon" (pdf 240kb)
   Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "Disability, Identity, and Representation" (pdf 240kb)
   ESSAY #1 DUE

Apr 13 Stigma: theories and challenges
   Shapiro, No Pity, Ch 2 & 4
   [Homework #3 paraphrase] Erving Goffman, "Stigma and Social Identity" (Word)
   Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair?" (Word)

Apr 18 Deaf-deaf: culture, identity, and technology
Guest speaker: Michael Richardson
Video in class: Sound and Fury
Shapiro, No Pity, Ch 3 & 7
[Homework #4 response] Bonnie Poitras Tucker, "Deaf Culture, Cochlear Implants, and Elective Disability" (pdf 800kb)
John Hockenberry, "The Next Brainiacs" (Word) (web link)

Apr 20 Perspectives on impairment and disability
Carol Thomas, "Disability and Impairment" (pdf 115kb)
Eli Clare, "The Mountain" (pdf 165kb)
Catherine Prendergast, "On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability" (pdf 210kb)

Apr 25 Disability law and policies: creating inclusive environments
   Guest speaker: Rebecca Cory
   "Summary of the Americans with Disabilities Act" (pdf 45kb)
   N. Kagendo Mutua, "The Semiotics of Accessibility and the Culture Construction of Disability" (pdf 150kb)
   Elizabeth Sierra-Zarella, "Adapting and 'Passing': My Experiences as a Graduate Student with Multiple Invisible Disabilities" (pdf 80kb)
   ESSAY #2 DUE

Apr 27 Representing disability: cultural constructions and identity politics
   Guest speaker: Hioni Karamanos
   Video in class: Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
   Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "Staring Back: Self-Representations of Disabled Performance Artists" (pdf 30kb)
   Cheryl Marie Wade, "Disability Culture Rap" (pdf 160kb)
   Anne Finger, "Like the Hully-Gully But Not So Slow" (pdf 320kb)
   Paul Longmore, "Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures" (pdf 230kb)

May 2 Architectural accessibility survey reports
   Reread N. Kagendo Mutua, "The Semiotics of Accessibility and the Cultural Construction of Disability" (pdf)

May 4 Disability arts and culture
   Guest speaker: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
   [Homework #5 response] Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, "Disability Culture: Assimilation or Inclusion?" (pdf 360kb)

May 9 Eugenics then and now
   Stephen Jay Gould, "Carrie Buck's Daughter" (HTML)
   Douglas Baynton, "Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History" (pdf 420kb)
   Joerg Bottger, "Review of Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution" (pdf 110kb)
   Harriet McBryde Johnson, "Unspeakable Conversations" (HTML)

May 11 What does it mean to be human? Bioethics, rights, and happiness
   Shapiro, No Pity, Ch 9
   Adrienne Asch, "Disability, Bioethics, and Human Rights" (pdf 720kb)
   Elizabeth Weil, "A Wrongful Birth?" (HTML)
   [Homework #6 response] Eva Feder Kittay, "When Caring is Just and Justice is Caring: Justice and Mental Retardation" (pdf 120kb)

May 16 Intersections: Disability and Gender Studies
   Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "Integrating Disability Studies into the Existing Curriculum" (HTML, same text as the version in course reader)
   Susan Wendell, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability" (pdf 320kb)
   Sumi Colligan, "Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed" (pdf 310kb)

May 18 Disability in non-Western cultures
   Guest speaker: Jose Alaniz
   James Charlton, "Culture(s) and Belief Systems" (pdf 240kb)

May 23 The ADA today: implementation, court rulings, public attitudes
Shapiro, No Pity, Ch 8, Epilogue, & Postscript
"Myths and Facts about the Americans with Disabilities Act" (Word) (web link)
Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, "The Americans with Disabilities Act" (pdf 160kb)
ADA summary and recent Supreme Court rulings on employment discrimination; and Robert Burgdorf, "A Misunderstood Law" (Word)

May 25 Independence and interdependence
Video: If I Can't Do It: at start of class we'll read this analysis of film (Word)
Shapiro, No Pity, Ch 5 & 6
Cal Montgomery, "Critic of the Dawn" (Word) (web link)
Robert Bogdan and Steven Taylor, "The Judged: Not the Judges: An Insider's View of Mental Retardation" (pdf 240kb)
ESSAY #3 DUE

May 30 Disability as diversity
Adrienne Asch, "Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity" (pdf 720kb)
Carl Elliott, "American Bioscience Meets the American Dream" (HTML)

June 1 Artifacts project presentations, in class, go to Loew 118

Wed June 7, by 6:30 pm: submit essay analyzing your artifacts. Send as an email attachment (Word) to jwoiak@u.washington.edu, or bring a hard copy and self-addressed stamped envelope to Padelford B-425 (there will be a box outside the door).