(Re)fusing the Amputated Body: An Interactionist Bridge for Feminism and Disability

Disabled women's issues, experiences, and embodiments have been misunderstood, if not largely ignored, by feminist as well as mainstream disability theorists. The reason for this, I argue, is embedded in the use of materialist and constructivist approaches to bodies that do not recognize the in...

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Published in:Hypatia 2001-10, Vol.16 (4), p.53-79
Main Author: SCHRIEMPF, ALEXA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ableism
Bias
Civil rights
Disabilities
Disability
Females
Feminism
Feminist Theory
Foundationalism
Gender identity
Human Body
Interactionism
Materialism
Oppression
People with disabilities
Physically Handicapped
Semiotics
Sex
Sexism
Sexuality
Spina bifida
Theoretical Problems
Theory
Women
Womens rights movements
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Summary:Disabled women's issues, experiences, and embodiments have been misunderstood, if not largely ignored, by feminist as well as mainstream disability theorists. The reason for this, I argue, is embedded in the use of materialist and constructivist approaches to bodies that do not recognize the interaction between "sex" and "gender" and "impairment" and "disability" as material-semiotic. Until an interactionist paradigm is taken up, we will not be able to uncover fully the intersection between sexist and ableist biases (among others) that form disabled women's oppressions. Relying on the understanding that sexuality is one such material-semiotic phenomenon, I examine the operation of interwoven biases in two disabled women's narratives.
ISSN:0887-5367
1527-2001
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00753.x