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The Minority Body

2017-04-14 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Minority Body by : Elizabeth Barnes

Download or read book The Minority Body written by Elizabeth Barnes. This book was released on 2017-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Minority Body

2016 Disabilities
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Release : 2016
Genre : Disabilities
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Book Synopsis The Minority Body by : Elizabeth Barnes

Download or read book The Minority Body written by Elizabeth Barnes. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Pridemovements; 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 toarticulate 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.

The Minority Body

2016-04-07 Philosophy
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Release : 2016-04-07
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Book Synopsis The Minority Body by : Elizabeth Barnes

Download or read book The Minority Body written by Elizabeth Barnes. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Minority Rules

2000 Social Science
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Release : 2000
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Minority Rules by : Louisa Schein

Download or read book Minority Rules written by Louisa Schein. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.

Extraordinary Bodies

2017-03-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-03-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Extraordinary Bodies by : Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Download or read book Extraordinary Bodies written by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.

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