SORRY FOR TYPOS - MY KEYBOARD IN MESSED UP
Ros
I believe Ronemarie Thomson coised normate - check with her.
You might want to check work of brbara mcclintock discussed is evelyn
fox keller's book gender asd science - see reference to it is my book
"claiming disability".
SIMI
---Ron Amundson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simi Linton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: UK/US disability discourses
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> > MAIRIAN - IF YOU CAN FIND INSTANCES WHERE I HAVE DONE SO (USED
> >NORMAL UNCRITICALLY) - PLEASE POINT THEM OUT TO ME. ALSO, I THINK
> >ROSEMARIE THOMSON'S USE OF NORMATE (ACTUALLY THIS IS HER TERM) IS
> >CERTAINLY NOT AN UNCRITICAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE IDEA OF NORMAL - IT
IS A
> >COMMENT ON IT.
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>
> I was meaning to ask the source and intention of the term "normate".
Is
> there a published source?
>
> > SORRY IF THE CAPS SEEM RUDE - I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER TO
> >FIND THIS POST. SIMI
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>
> Worked for me. ;-)
>
> I'm working on a paper on the concept of biological normalcy, aka
"species
> typical function", and its lack of real biological justification. I'm
> comparing it to the 19th century concept of race. Denying the
reality of
> biological normalcy usually earns one the same slack-jawed stare that
> denying the reality of race would have 100 years ago.
>
> Ron
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> Ron Amundson
> University of Hawaii at Hilo
> Hilo, HI 96720-4091
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