![]() The author, Susan Wendell, a person living with disabilities, shines through this book, and invites the reader to engage with the issues in which she is interested. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness. The Rejected Body is both a very human and a very humane book. The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and the criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. In The Rejected Body, she connects her own experience of illness to feminist theory and the literature of disability. Susan Wendell has lived with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) since 1985. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Rejected Body : Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability by Susan Wendell (1996. ![]() ![]() ![]() Item type: Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this. ![]() What causes disability and what could "cure" it?Īre scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions morally justified? The rejected body : feminist philosophical reflections on disability / Susan Wendell. Is disability biomedical, social or both? ![]()
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