James C. Wilson is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and the author of Vietnam in Prose and Film, John Reed for the Masses, and The Hawthorne and Melville Friendship. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson is a professor of English at Miami University and the author of Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce, and From Community to College: Reading and Writing Across Diverse Contexts.

"This is a needed book, with a much-needed focus...to further the argument put forth in disability studies that 'disability' is a socially-constructed label and that the material circumstances of 'disabled' people's lives are closely tied to 'non-disabled' society's construction of those lives. It also argues for the agency of the disabled: for their right to speak for themselves." - Patricia A. Dunn, author of Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies

• James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, "Disability, Rhetoric, and the Body" Martha Stoddard Holmes, "Working (with) the Rhetoric of Affliction" Catherine Prendergast, "On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability" Miriamne Ara Krummel, "Am I MS?" G. Thomas Couser, "Conflicting Paradigms" Nirmala Erevelles, "In Search of the Disabled Subject" Brenda Jo Brueggemann, "Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric" Deshae E. Lott, "Going to Class with (Going to Clash with?) the Disabled Person" Hannah Joyner, "Signs of Resistance" Ellen L. Barton, "Textual Practices of Erasure" Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, "Putting Disability in Its Place: It's Not a Joking Matter" Emily F. Nye, "The Rhetoric of AIDS" Beth Franks, "Gutting the Golden Goose"