Analysis Of Feminist Disability

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“A feminist disability theory extends its critique of the normalization of bodies and the medicalization of appearance to challenge some widely held assumptions about reproductive issues as well.”

In this essay, I would like to focus on some of the main critiques of the normalization of bodies and the medicalization of appearance. Furthermore, I will discuss selective abortion, plastic surgery, and physician-assisted killing.

The feminist disability theory critiques the way society treats everyone with a disability as different, and incomplete. Society wants to eliminate all kinds of human variation. They want to eradicate everything that’s not normal. When people see disability, the first thing they think of is treatment. If someone in …show more content…

In the feminist movements, it was often seen the one-sided view, of what a woman should look like. The overall meaning of disabilities has been challenged in the article. In ancient history, especially during ancient Greece, women’s bodies were notified as being that of deformed men. An ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle quoted that “Why to educate women” they are only a castrated male. The society is supporting more to patriarchal parts. The ideology of disability is linked to Gender perspectives in ancient history. This makes me think that is our society change or still, it follows the same …show more content…

According to Garland Thomson “Integrating Disability does not obscure our critical focus on the category of sex, race, ethnic groups or gender nor it is addictive. I would like to focus that, it is hypocritical of the feminist movement to not be co-operative towards the ideas of persons with certain inabilities who are not of the normal population, with an addition of different discriminations which they face because of cultural definitions of normativity.

People with disabilities are known as a failure in terms of formation and development. Women who have to disable bodies are tagged as an incomplete and ugly. They are being dominated and have been discriminated by the society which has happened in past and which is happening in present. I get more ideas to understand about the feminine perspectives how they categorize women body in terms of “ability’ and ‘disability’. Disability is something which will affect us all, sooner or later so studying about it into feminist theory has broadened our collective inquiries, question our assumptions and help us to understand how they are interconnected nature of social

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