Tag: Feminsim

• ‘The Minority Body’- Barnes, Elizabeth

  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…

  The Disability Archives

  24th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, B, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Physical Disability

  Academic, Disability Pride, Disability Rights, Disability Studies, Feminsim, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Physical Disability, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’- Kafer, Alison

  In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as…

  The Disability Archives

  15th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, K, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Queer

  Academic, Body Politics, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Feminsim, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘A Disability History of the United States’- Nielsen, Kim E.

  The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability…

  The Disability Archives

  8th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Misc, Misc., N, Non-Fiction, Sociology

  Academic, Activism, American History, Civil Rights, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Justice, Disability Rights, Disability Studies, Eugenics, Feminsim, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Sociology, Submitted Book, USA