RHETOR 109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ableism
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Mountain as a metaphor: author, a disabled person likes to climb mountains, wonders if he would be doing this if he weren"t disabled. These stories rely upon the perception that disability and achievement contradict, that any disabled person who overcomes the contradiction is heroic. I refuse to enter the terrain marked bitterness . Model of disability which separates impairment from disability. Impairment (according to michael oliver): lacking part of/ all of a limb or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body. Cannot neatly divide impairment from disability both center on the body. Oliver"s model makes theoretical and political sense but misses important emotional realities. Only if bodies are understood as never singular, but haunted, strengthened and underscore by other bodies. Only if it is understood that language lives under the skin words like.
