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The minority body : a theory of disability

By Elizabeth , Barnes

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
978-0-19-873258-7, 0198732589
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1101996 bytes)
Series
Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
200\213
Time added
2017-06-25 19:00:00
Filozofia;Etyka;Osoby niepełnosprawne

Description

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement. Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

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