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How deafness is perceived as a problem by society dictates what types of technologies are leveraged to address the problem, and, conversely, available technologies shape how deafness is perceived. In this dissertation, I draw on multiple methods to explore the meanings of deafne…

With the advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), people with the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infection are increasingly enjoying longer and relatively healthy lives, particularly in developed countries. However, black Africans and African-Caribbean people…

Normality as it relates to the human body and its abilities remains unexamined in Francophone literature. Many critics maintain that normality's Western parent fields, disability studies and freak culture, are culturally inadequate for such an endeavor. Curiously, Francophone no…

Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…