The minority body [electronic resource] : a theory of disability / Elizabeth Barnes.

The minority body [electronic resource] : a theory of disability / Elizabeth Barnes.

First edition.

9780191796814 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

©2016

English

1 online resource (xii, 200 pages).

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732587 doi

HV1568 .N376 2016eb

362.4

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. To be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

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. To be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Studies in feminist philosophy.

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