The Minority Body(English, Hardcover, Barnes Elizabeth)

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The Minority Body(English, Hardcover, Barnes Elizabeth) is written by Barnes Elizabeth and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198732589 (ISBN 10) and 9780198732587 (ISBN 13).

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.