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I think that Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw, does a really good job of describing how disabilities can disable the individual from functioning within society. What I really found interesting for two reasons was her full on description of the steps one has to take when undergoing a sex change. At first it caught my attention because I thought "oh wow it's nice to know, because now I can appreciate it more", but then I began to question it. Why explain something in great detail, about one's life or the process in general when all it does is contradict what you are trying to accomplish in your book? I found that Bornstein allowed for people to see her in a category by allowing others to say "oh so she was a man first". In describing the process that she went through she becomes a contradictory self, because she herself puts her body in a categories: first a man, then a woman, then a lesbian.