Susan Wendell

The Rejected Body

Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780415910477
• ISBN-10: 0415910471
• Artikelnr.: 22112321

Autorenporträt

Susan Wendell is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the co- editor, with David Copp, of Pornography and Censorship (1983).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Who Is Disabled? Defining Disability
Chapter 2 The Social Construction of Disability
Chapter 3 Disability as Difference
Chapter 4 The Flight from the Rejected Body
Chapter 5 The Cognitive and Social Authority of Medicine
Chapter 6 Disability and Feminist Ethics
Chapter 7 Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body