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The Minority Body: A Theory of DisabilityOxford University Press. 2016.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 somet…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Feminist Epistemology |
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous |
Feminism: Rape and Sexual Violence |