The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability

By Elizabeth Barnes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198732589
• ISBN13: 9780198732587
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"