Enabling Community: Disabled Women's Practice of Changing Disability Values

The beginning of disabled women's political activism can truly be considered an opportunity for them to disclose their experience of discrimination to society as a whole, obtain a chance to empower themselves and embark on a struggle against social injustice. Through their movement, disabled wo...

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Published in:Asian journal of women's studies 2010, 16(4), , pp.30-59
Main Author: Kang, Min Hui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critical thinking
Disability
disability community
disability-embodied gender politics
Disabled women's movement
emancipatory politics
gendered disability
Human rights
patriarchal disablism
Personal relationships
Political activism
Society
Women
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Summary:The beginning of disabled women's political activism can truly be considered an opportunity for them to disclose their experience of discrimination to society as a whole, obtain a chance to empower themselves and embark on a struggle against social injustice. Through their movement, disabled women have developed alternative values whereby they tackle the able-body-centered culture. With these new values, disabled women have also developed the philosophical basis and practical tools for resisting patriarchal disablism in Korean society. This paper aims to examine the significance of the disabled women's movement and their resistance against patriarchal disablism. It also seeks to investigate these women's emancipatory politics, which is part of the counter-culture. Disabled women's politics providesa model for changing discriminative values as well as resisting the oppression of those with disabilities.
ISSN:1225-9276
2377-004X
DOI:10.1080/12259276.2010.11666097