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Ninon Dubourg is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cologne
Sara Scalenghe is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland
Pieter Verstraete is Professor of Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven
Introduction: From the centre to the margins: Rethinking the history of disability in the wake of the affective turn – Ninon Dubourg, Sara Scalenghe, Pieter Verstraete
1 Reclaiming pain, fatigue and misery: Workers’ disability benefit claims in the Netherlands, 1901–1967 – Nathanje Dijkstra
2 ‘As if it would tear her apart’: Chronic pain experiences and emotions in early modern miracle collections, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries – Bianca Frohne
3 Disability, patience and sadness in Teresa de Cartagena’s Arboleda de los enfermos – Nicole Reibe
4 The emotional intimacy of pain: Hojo Tamio and the experience of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in twentieth-century Japan – Wei Yu Wayne Tan
5 ‘Dancing for joy’: Disability and affect in British missionary writing from early twentieth-century South Asia – Esme Cleall
6 ‘Melancholy yet sweet satisfaction’: Emotion, physical disability and identity among enslaved men within the nineteenth-century U.S. Plantation South – Mia Edwards
7 Emotions, education and the struggle for social justice: The affective politics of disfigurement in post-Independent India – Shilpaa Anand
8 Piss on pity: Disabled people’s activism in twentieth century Britain – Kirstie Stage
9 Feeling the way: Disciplining emotions of blind mobility in Britain, c. 1960-1979 – Beck Chamberlain Heslop
10 Emotional readings: Representations of disability in Italian children’s literature and schoolbooks, 1880-1940 – Simonetta Polenghi and Anna Debè
Afterword: Feeling our way forward – David M. Turner