Women's Studies 2164A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nothing About Us Without Us, Neurotypical, Critical Theory
25 Nov 2017
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Examples of disabilities: visible versus invisible, counting things like cancer and hearing impairment, roughly 1 in 8 people are disabled, not narrow, broad. If you look over the course of a lifespan, there is a good chance you will experience a time where you"re disabled. Someone in a wheelchair or who is blind, yes, but what about the anorexic, the alcoholic, the infertile, the shy. Experience of disability: nothing about us without us. Social accounts: disability and who counts is largely a product of our society"s demands, getting around in a wheelchair isn"t an issue in a world that"s designed for wheelchairs, views disability as a mismatch. Again, two models: biological impairment versus social limitation. What we often get wrong about disability: conceptualize disability as misfortune, privilege normalcy, assume productivity is essential to personhood, assume we can separate out natural from social disability. Focus on rational agency (an issue for the cognitively disabled)
