The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
A Disability Studies, Grad School, Gender book. This book was amazing and opened my mind to new ways of thinking...
This study applies a feminist philosophical perspective to theoretical and practical issues of physical disability, such as 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. The book also 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, feminist discussions of bodily life, and feminist criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. The story of the author's own experience...
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- Pages: 206 pages
- ISBN: 9780415910477 / 415910471
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This book was amazing and opened my mind to new ways of thinking and understanding. 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... I reviewed this book for Feminists with Disabilities:http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/04/...
