Title | : | The Minority Body |
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Author | : | Elizabeth Barnes |
Release | : | 2016-04-07 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science, Society, Political Philosophy, Ethics |
Size | : | 1000445 |
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. To be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body. |