Chapter 1 Introduction: Breathing in Airless Spaces

Chapter 2 Coming Out Mad, Coming Out Disabled

Chapter 3 Going Barefoot: Mad Affiliation, Identity Politics, and Eros

Chapter 4 “Hundreds of People Like Me”: A Search for a Mad Community in The Bell Jar

Chapter 5 Writing Madness in Indigenous Literature: A Hesitation

Chapter 6 “Is the Young Lady Mad?”: Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction

Chapter 8 Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon’s “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles”

Chapter 9 Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/Humanism

Chapter 10 “My Difference Is Not My [Mental] Sickness”: Ethnicity and Erasure in Joanne Greenberg’s Jewish American Life Writing

Chapter 11 Resistance, Suffering, and Psychiatric Disability in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom and Amandeep Sandhu’s Sepia Leaves

Chapter 12 Mental Disability and Social Value in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng

Chapter 13 It Doesn’t Add Up: Mental Illness in Paul Hornschemeier’s Mother, Come Home