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The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability

Barnes, Elizabeth·2016
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732587.001.0001
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There is a massive disconnect between the way disability is understood in the disability rights and disability pride movements and the way disability is understood within analytic philosophy. The former see being disabled as 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. But while this view of disability has been widely incorporated into academic disability studies, it remains at the margins of analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or suboptimal 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. This book argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

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Authors
Barnes, E.
Affiliations
University of Virginia (US)
Corresponding author
Barnes, Elizabeth
ORCID
Barnes, Elizabeth
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2016-03-01
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732587.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4255727569
Cited by
596
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Citations by year
2026: 90 · 2025: 139 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 60 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 3
FWCI
35.73
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
Keywords
disability, disability rights movement, disability pride, social model of disability, disability studies, physical disability

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