A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.

Foreword Deborah Stone; 1. Disability and political theory: an introduction Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann; 2. Disability in political theory versus international practice: redefining equality and freedom Barbara Arneil; 3. The ableist contract: intellectual disability and the limits of justice in Kant's political thought Lucas Pinheiro; 4. Disavowals of disability in Rawls's Theory of Justice and his critics Stacy Clifford Simplican; 5. Disabling barriers, enabling freedom Nancy J. Hirschmann; 6. Disability and violence: another call for democratic inclusion and pluralism Joan Tronto; 7. Dyslexia manifesto Kathy E. Ferguson; 8. Hannah Arendt and disability: natality and the right to inhabit the world Lorraine Krall McCrary; 9. Connecting the disconnect: mental disorder and political disorder Theresa Lee; 10. Wollstonecraft, Hobbes, and the rationality of women's anxiety Eileen Hunt Botting; 11. Rethinking membership and participation in an inclusive democracy: cognitive disability, children, animals Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka; 12. Rethinking 'cure' and 'accommodation' Nancy J. Hirschmann and Rogers M. Smith.