Disability as a fluid state : introduction / Sharon N. Barnartt -- "Feeling normal" and "feeling disabled" / Mary Jo Deegan -- Out of a coma and into a wheelchair : social and physical accessibility and the construction of disabled identity / Jay Chaskes -- At the interstices of classification : notes on the category of disability in sub-Saharan Africa / Patrick J. Devlieger -- A relational approach to the development of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities / Allison C. Carey -- From "survival of the fittest" to "fitness for all" to "who defines fitness anyway?" : 100 years of (US) sociological theory on disability / Corinne Kirchner -- Regarding disability : perceptions of protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act / Pepper K. Mueller, Jeffrey A. Houser and Mark D. Riddle -- "Sit home and collect the check" : race, class, and the social construction of disability identity / Deborah L. Little -- Activism, models, identities, and opportunities : a preliminary test of a typology of disability orientations / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling and D. Alex Heckert -- Deaf women's work experiences : negotiating gender, ability, and theories of resistance / Cheryl Najarian Souza -- Why does growth hurt? The dual role of normalization and stigmatization in the experience of growth hormone treatment / Leslie Rott -- Disproportionality : a sociological perspective of the identification by schools of students with learning disabilities / Dara Shifrer, Chandra Muller and Rebecca Callahan