Michael Rembis is Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA. He has authored or edited many books, articles, and book chapters, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories co-edited with Susan Burch (2014); and The Oxford Handbook of Disability History co-edited with Kim Nielsen and Catherine Kudlick (forthcoming).

An innovative and field-defining edited volume within the multidisciplinary field of disability studies

Responds to important academic trends in a rapidly growing field, appealing to policy makers, community organizers, social workers, and activists as well as scholars

Thoughtfully articulates the complex lived realities of people with disabilities in examining domesticity

Lays the groundwork for "domesticity" as a valuable new organizing concept

Introduction .- From "Blind Susan" to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity .- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing .- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America .- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cultural Politics of Accessible Housing in the United States .- A Feminist Technoscientific Approach to Disability and Caregiving in the Family .- Inevitable Intersections: Care, Work, and Citizenship .- Reclaiming the Sexual Rights of LGBTQ People with Attendant Care Dependent Mobility Impairments .- "Everybody Has Different Levels of Why They Are Here": Deconstructing Domestication in the Nursing Home Setting .- Contesting the Neoliberal Affects of Disabled Parenting: Towards a Relational Emergence of Disability .- The Mad Woman in the Garden: DecolonizingDomesticity in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night .- Gatekeepers of Normalcy: The Disablement of Families in the Master Narratives of Psychology .- Postfeminist Motherhood?: Reading a Differential Deployment of Identity in American Women's HIV Narratives .- Melting Down the Family Unit: A Neuroqueer Critique of Table-Readiness.