HLTC02H3 Chapter 9: HLTC02 Chapter 9.doc
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Chapter 9: cultures of dis/ability: from being stigmatized to doing disability. There a danger in discussing disability within the context of women"s health especially if the term women"s health maintains the hierarchical health/illness binary, a binary that disability scholars and activists find problematic. Disability should not only an embodied and relational experience but also a socio- cultural and political event. Four domains that can be deepened by a disability analysis: representation, the body, identity, and activism. Stigma (goffman) diagnoses the self in relation to particular other and to society and social norms in general, he also focused on the individual self, in a world that at once creates and oppresses it. Disability studies have for the most part, not yet adequately problematized the category of experience. General current trend in the disability rights movement and disability studies is to make visible experiences of disability that have been previously hidden from history and not addressed politically.
