FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stella Young, Objectification, Disability Studies

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

The tendency to think of disability as simply biological, physical and medical reality. Social model: acknowledges that social arrangements can make a biological or physical condition more or less relevant. The lack of representation in film of people with disability. Failures of representation: disability is also often times simply absent, erased, invisible, people with disabilities presented as deviant sinister and evil, the (cid:858)pit(cid:455) approa(cid:272)h(cid:859): al(cid:373)ost al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s ase(cid:454)ual, the(cid:455)(cid:859)re depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t o(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else, (cid:374)ot s(cid:373)art. Jerr(cid:455)(cid:859)s orpha(cid:374)s: name the two things that we(cid:374)dell sa(cid:455)s are i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t to re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er a(cid:271)out the (cid:862)help(cid:863) that people with disabilities need, pg 111. Help is considered entitlement: eli clare (cid:272)riti(cid:272)izes (cid:449)hat he (cid:862)o(cid:448)er(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) stories a(cid:271)out disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455). Wh(cid:455) is (cid:272)lare (cid:272)riti(cid:272)al of the (cid:862)super(cid:272)rip (cid:272)rap(cid:863) Dominant story about disability should be able lack of accessibility. Internalized supercrip crap: explain why gillian giles thinks we need to dismantle the ideas of productivity. Objectify one group of people for another group of people (disabled---non)