SPECIAL ISSUE: Women Writing Disability
Michael Davidson, Guest Editor

Editor’s Note

Introduction: Women Writing Disability
Michael Davidson

The Benevolent Education of Maritime Laborers at America’s First Schools for the Deaf
Mary Eyring

Freakery and the Discursive Limits of Be-ing in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite
Nicole C. Livengood

Lyric Underheard: The Printed Voice of Laura Catherine Redden Searing
Jessica Lewis Luck

Ill Fated: The Disease of Racism in Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste
Sarah Schuetze

“What mighty transformations!”: Disfigurement and Self-Improvement in Emma May Buckingham’s A Self-Made Woman
Jaime Osterman Alves

“Dropping crooked into rhyme”: Djuna Barnes’s Disabled Poetics in The Book of Repulsive Women
Mary I. Unger

A Different Integration: Race and Disability in Early-Twentieth-Century African American Drama by Women
Ann M. Fox

Legacy Profile

Adele M. George Jewel Kerr (1834–?)
Rush Seitz and Laura Laffrado

Excerpt from A Brief Narrative of the Life of Miss Adele M. George, (Being Deaf and Dumb)
Adele M. George

Review Essay

Politics and Sympathy: Recognition and Action in Feminist Literary Disability Studies
Diane Price Herndl

Book Reviews

Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination, by Elizabeth Barnes
Mary Louise Kete

Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing, by Dorri Beam
Theo Davis

Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, by Tess Chakkalakal
Laura Korobkin   

Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture, by Catherine Keyser; and Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space, by Alice Fahs
Karen Roggenkamp

Announcement