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"Compulsory able-bodiedness" as a book category covers works that examine and critique the cultural, social, legal, and institutional expectation that people should be able-bodied and able-minded. Books in this category include memoirs, fiction, essays, cultural criticism, history, and theory that center disabled lives and experiences or expose how societies normalize and enforce able-bodied norms—through medicine, workplaces, education, architecture, media, and policy—and the harms that result (marginalization, medicalization, exclusion, surveillance, and coerced productivity). These works often explore resistance and alternatives: disability justice, accessibility, community care, assistive technologies, nonnormative embodiments, and intersectional connections to race, gender, class, and sexuality. Whether personal narratives or scholarly critique, the category foregrounds how ableism is enforced as a default expectation and imagines ways to dismantle or live beyond that coercive norm.

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