Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body · The Library · Artistic Accessibility Collective

The book that flipped the question: instead of asking what is wrong with disabled bodies, Davis asks where the idea of "normal" even came from. He traces the norm and the bell curve to the nineteenth century and argues that normalcy, not disability, is the construct that needs explaining. Foundational for understanding how the category of disability was built.