Studying Disability Arts and Culture

Petra Kuppers is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama, Art and Design, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She is the author of The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, Community Performance: An Introduction and Disability Culture and Community Performance, amongst other titles.

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- PART I 1. Setting Up.- 2. Languages of Disability.- 3. Discourses of Disability.- 4. Embodiment/Enmindment: Processes of Living.- 5. Disability Culture.- PART II 6. Life in the Institution: Discourses at Work and at Play.- 7. Freak Shows and the Theatre.- 8. Disabled Dance and Dancerly Bodies.- 9. Superheroes and the Lure of Disability.- 10. Looking at Autism.- 11. Classroom Activism and Resources.- 12. Appendix: For Teachers.- Bibliography.- Index.