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Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach

Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach

Maybee, Julie E.

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy

PhilosophySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1538127725
ISBN13: 9781538127728
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 17 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

If the future is accessible, as Alisa Grishman--one of 55 million Americans categorized as having a disability--writes in this book's cover image, then we must stop making or constructing people as disabled and impaired.

In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles.

Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.

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