State of the Field

This is a marvelous, challenging, and exiting moment for the field. Yet there are many areas that disability historians would like to see more fully developed: such as, the relationship between the development of capitalism and the development of disability as both concept and lived experience; the development of the state; the racialization, gendering, and class-­‐ification of disability, and significantly more on sexuality and disability; smart microhistories of experiences of disability; consideration of what the historicization of disability means for the historicization of able-­‐ bodiedness, and what it means for family histories of disability; spaces of disability culture; consideration aging and life cycle issues, among others.