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Author Barnes, Elizabeth (Philosopher), author.

Title The minority body : a theory of disability / Elizabeth Barnes
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2016
©2016
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages)
Series Studies in feminist philosophy
Studies in feminist philosophy.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Constructing disability -- Bad-difference and mere-difference -- The value-neutral model -- Taking their word for it -- Causing disability -- Disability pride -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Disabilities -- Philosophy
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Minority Groups -- history
Minority Health -- ethics
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
People with disabilities
Sociology of disability
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191796814
0191796816
0191046558
9780191046551