Care and Disability

D. Christopher Gabbard is professor of English at the University of North Florida, whose work focuses on the intersection of disability studies and British eighteenth-century studies. Talia Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY and the Graduate Center, CUNY, whose work focuses on gender, disability, and domesticity in the Victorian novel.

0.Introduction. Section One – Care Collectives: Choosing Kin. 1.Caring Characters: Esther’s Effacement in Bleak House. 2.Socrates’s Bath: Toward a Poetics of Attendance. 3.Ancestral Care Work: Reimagining Disability Justice for Black Crip Queers. Section Two – Critiquing Family Caregiving. 4."The Very Staff of My Age, My Very Prop”: Care as Prosthesis in Shakespeare. 5.The Networked Family: Care and Form in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar. 6.“Negotiating Care and Control: Impairment, Caregiving, and Surveillance in William Godwin’s Mandeville”. Section Three – Articulating Care. 7.“[G]ood people will take care of me”: Capacity and Care in the ‘Left-Hand Penmanship’ Contest of 1865–1867. 8.‘Mary’s Washing-Tub Tales’: Disability and Communities of Care in Mary Prince’s History. 9.“Anile Dotage?” Communities of Care in William Wordsworth’s “The Idiot Boy”. Section Four - Alternative Care Paradigms: Past Possibilities, Future Fantasies. 10."Nineteenth-Century, North American, Indigenous Voices of Disability: An Alternative Care Ethic”. 11.“Disability and Collective Care in Charlotte Forten’s Civil War Writings”. 12.Ethics of Care, Disability, and Sex Work as Care Work in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone and Days”. 13.From Double Bind to Monkeys’ Wedding: Care Work in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn.