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The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

By Susan Wendell

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415910471, 9780415910477, 0415910463, 9780415910460
LCC
HV1568 .W433 1996
Google Books ID
aoiHCwymEeoC
Open Library ID
OL814091M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18173031 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
213\213
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical, social or both; what causes disability and what could 'cure' it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness.

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