CUL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deaf Culture, Social Stigma, Minority Group
28 Aug 2018
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* by defining some people as the other, visual texts help create normal identities. * a normal body is a theoretical premise from which all bodies must fall short. * an agenda: to (cid:1688)divest able bodied-ness of its mythical aura of perfectibility and reclaim the disabled body as the more appropriate paradigm of mutable humanity. * the able body as a cultural fiction that representations of disabled bodies help to construct. * representations of disabled people; the paraolympics, house, * images of disability are all over the place. * not about disabled people but non disabled peoples anxieties, fears, projections. * negative qualities projected onto women and disabled peoples bodies. * the deficient body by virtue of its insufficiency, serves as a baseline for the articulation of the normal body. * use of physical impairment to signify evil character. * disabled people are used as the symbol of enfreakment.
