The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
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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.
