The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
Elizabeth Barnes
Abstract
There is a massive disconnect between the way disability is understood in the disability rights and disability pride movements and the way disability is understood within analytic philosophy. The former see being disabled as 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. But while this view of disability has been widely incorporated into academic disability studies, it remains at the margins of analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or suboptimal is one that m ... More
Keywords: disability, disability pride, disability rights, social oppression, minority body
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198732587 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732587.001.0001 |
