FEMST 182 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hess Corporation, Emotional Labor, Essentialism
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Exclusionary, essentialist, oppressive, and binary aspects of the category woman itself. Disability disrupts the classification woman & challenges primacy of gender as a monolithic category; disabled women are marked & excluded within the larger social class of women. The self materializes in response to an engagement with its environment; the disabled body has variations or transformations that render it out of sync with its environment. Refusal to claim disability identity bc hard to understand or talk about disability in ways that are not oppressive: activism. Pics of disabled fashion models let disabled people imagine themselves as part of ordinary world rather than a special class of excluded untouchables & unviewables. Integrate disability as a category of analysis, a historical community, a set of material practices, a social identity, a political position, and a representational system to strengthen the critique that is feminism. Openings, obstacles, and disruptions: desire as a portable queer.
