The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

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.

• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
• Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
• Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
• Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
• How Propaganda Works
• Transformative Experience
• Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
• Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources, 2nd Edition
• The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice