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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822413
• ISBN13: 9780198822417
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"