FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heterosexuality, Sigurd, Political Subjectivity
15 Apr 2016
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Disability in theory: the work of tobin siebers. The disabled body is viewed as an unregulated, untamable body. The goal of discipline would be to re-organize and restructure these bodies to make them productive and independent. The disabled body plays the role of the abject; normalcy is constructed in opposition to disability. The disabled body is on the one hand the free body because it is not restricted. For siebers, the disabled body is not even a subject within foucault"s work. Foucault"s idea of a subject is that a) independent thought and will exists, and b) subjects are defined by various institutions and are only understood by those specific institutions. For siebers, the disabled body doesn"t meet these requirements, it cannot fit within foucault"s theory because it is such an unruly body. For siebers, the docile body at one point becomes the disabled body (metaphorically)
