To all
The title 'Feminist Geography' may sound strange but I view it and many
feminist theories as important for disability studies. When I first looked
at the basics of disability studies i.e the social model,
disability/impairment dichotomony and came to the view that the dichotomony
was incoherent and that the main question for me was what was impairment's
uneasy relation to the disability (if any). It seems too much of a
coincidence for me that those who were disabled also have the 'right' body
i.e an impaired one, if disability has nothing to do with the body as some
social modellist's suggest then this is a hell of a concidence? To start to
solve that puzzle as my starting point I turned to another group of people
who say they have been discrimanted against and their view on the body e.g
de Beauvior, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, people who been concerned with
the body for the last 50 years (dated from the publication of the Second
Sex). I never quite undertstood why some people ignored these ideas as
being 'goofy' or 'too feminist'.
Michael
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