The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

✍ Scribed by Susan Wendell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical, social or both; what causes disability and what could 'cure' it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1. Who Is Disabled? Defining Disability......Page 18
2. The Social Construction of Disability......Page 42
3. Disability as Difference......Page 64
4. The Flight from the Rejected Body......Page 92
5. The Cognitive and Social Authority of Medicine......Page 124
6. Disability and Feminist Ethics......Page 146
7. Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body......Page 172
1. Who Is Disabled? Defining Disability......Page 188
2. The Social Construction of Disability......Page 190
3. Disability as Difference......Page 193
4. The Flight from the Rejected Body......Page 195
5. The Cognitive and Social Authority of Medicine......Page 198
6. Disability and Feminist Ethics......Page 199
7. Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body......Page 201
References......Page 204