WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intersectionality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000
• Professor: Amy Butchart

Document Summary

Disability does not equal impairment but is the loss of opportunity to engage in society. Biological and social dimension of disability: fitting into the category of normal. The absence of conformity is what places people into sub groups: resource access. Social conditions can create disability, those who try and participate can sometimes effect some more than others. Increased vulnerability, prevention of disability through medical care. I. e. trans people not seeking medical care due to prejudice. Increasing expectations, as a social factor increases drug and alcohol addiction, injury. Affects disability as increasing demands require accommodations etc: pace of life. Ability to function leads to changes in policy: reflections. Changes to expectation creates disabled peoples struggle: normal bodies and minds. The norm is a standard and those outside of it are a burden. All or nothing thinking: binary version of participation. Severe anxiety, prevents from same level of participation but does not need to lead to marginalization.