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The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
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 i...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published
July 2nd 1996
by Routledge
(first published June 2nd 1996)
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Holy discourse, Batman! It's a book with the word "feminist" and the word "disability" in the title, and it didn't piss me off. For the last couple of years just one has been a bad sign – clearly I wasn't reading the right stuff.
Pretty much what it says on the tin: a compact but thorough unpack of how feminist theory – treating gender as the social construct of biological difference – can illuminate disability theory – treating ability as the social construct of t...more
Pretty much what it says on the tin: a compact but thorough unpack of how feminist theory – treating gender as the social construct of biological difference – can illuminate disability theory – treating ability as the social construct of t...more
Too academic for my current tastes, but there were some real gems in the "Myth of Control" section.
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"People with disabilities or incurable illnesses often find that long after they have accepted the conditions of their bodies, their friends and acquaintances want them to continue looking for cures. Out of kindness and a wish to help, but also frequently because of a frantic desire not to be forced to believe that the body cannot be controlled, people offer endl...more
A quote:
"People with disabilities or incurable illnesses often find that long after they have accepted the conditions of their bodies, their friends and acquaintances want them to continue looking for cures. Out of kindness and a wish to help, but also frequently because of a frantic desire not to be forced to believe that the body cannot be controlled, people offer endl...more
I was particularly interested in reading this due to the fact that the author, like myself, has had CFS/ME for an extended period of time. Due to this, she's much more aware of invisible disabilities than many other writers would be.
There's a lot to think about in here. I particularly enjoyed the chapters about the ways in which Western medicine can actually hinder, rather than help, people with disabilities.
My main disappointment with the book was that the subtitle prom...more
There's a lot to think about in here. I particularly enjoyed the chapters about the ways in which Western medicine can actually hinder, rather than help, people with disabilities.
My main disappointment with the book was that the subtitle prom...more
A very detailed jump into the world of Feminist Disability Theory. Written for mostly academic readers, this book is on the whole accessible enough to read outside that world.
Wendell goes in depth describing first how typical feminist theory has forgotten about the differently abled and tasks them to task for it. Then she delves into who should be considered "disabled", why and/or why not, given various degrees of shite to those who prefer to put "labels" on the...more
Wendell goes in depth describing first how typical feminist theory has forgotten about the differently abled and tasks them to task for it. Then she delves into who should be considered "disabled", why and/or why not, given various degrees of shite to those who prefer to put "labels" on the...more
FANTASTIC. Recommended reading if you're interested in disability studies, feminist theory, or both. I used this book as a resource for a paper that I wrote a few months ago, but even if you're not in the field of gender studies, it's an informative and (dare I say it?) entertaining read.
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