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Loading... The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability (edition 1996)by Susan Wendell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I really appreciated so many of the things that the author has to say about living as a woman with disabilities. I recommend this to all women who live with impairment of some kind, or anyone who cares for a woman who is impaired. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.4082Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with disabilitesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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