The Minority Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Minority Body write by Elizabeth Barnes. This book was released on 2017-04-14. The Minority Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement. Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.
Extraordinary Bodies
Extraordinary Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extraordinary Bodies write by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Extraordinary Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.
Minority Rules
Minority Rules - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rules write by Louisa Schein. This book was released on 2000. Minority Rules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.
The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion
The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion write by Blake Hereth. This book was released on 2019-09-04. The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, feminist and pantheist conceptions of the divine, and nonhuman animals connect to existing issues in philosophy of religion. By staking out new avenues for future research, this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in analytic philosophy of religion and analytic philosophical theology.
Disability Pride
Disability Pride - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disability Pride write by Ben Mattlin. This book was released on 2022-11-29. Disability Pride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture—from social media to high fashion, Hollywood to Broadway—showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change. He also explores the movement’s shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care, the right-to-die movement, institutionalization, and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play. Beautifully written, without anger or pity, Disability Pride is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems different.
