Histories of disability and emotions

Ninon Dubourg is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of CologneSara Scalenghe is Professor of History at Loyola University MarylandPieter Verstraete is Professor of Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven

• Introduction: From the centre to the margins: Rethinking the history of disability in the wake of the affective turn – Ninon Dubourg, Sara Scalenghe, Pieter Verstraete1 Reclaiming pain, fatigue and misery: Workers’ disability benefit claims in the Netherlands, 1901–1967 – Nathanje Dijkstra2 ‘As if it would tear her apart’: Chronic pain experiences and emotions in early modern miracle collections, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries – Bianca Frohne3 Disability, patience and sadness in Teresa de Cartagena’s Arboleda de los enfermos – Nicole Reibe4 The emotional intimacy of pain: Hojo Tamio and the experience of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in twentieth-century Japan – Wei Yu Wayne Tan5 ‘Dancing for joy’: Disability and affect in British missionary writing from early twentieth-century South Asia – Esme Cleall6 ‘Melancholy yet sweet satisfaction’: Emotion, physical disability and identity among enslaved men within the nineteenth-century U.S. Plantation South – Mia Edwards7 Emotions, education and the struggle for social justice: The affective politics of disfigurement in post-Independent India – Shilpaa Anand8 Piss on pity: Disabled people’s activism in twentieth century Britain – Kirstie Stage9 Feeling the way: Disciplining emotions of blind mobility in Britain, c. 1960-1979 – Beck Chamberlain Heslop10 Emotional readings: Representations of disability in Italian children’s literature and schoolbooks, 1880-1940 – Simonetta Polenghi and Anna DebèAfterword: Feeling our way forward – David M. Turner