HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Disability Rights Movement, Disability Studies, Erving Goffman
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Cultures of disability; from being stigmatized to doing disability. Disability is understood as lack, something to be fixed, just as illness is understood within this binary frame as lacking health. In her important essay integrating disability, transforming feminist theory" garland thomson (2002) discusses 4 domains of feminist theory that can be deepened by a disability analysis ; representation, the body, identity and activism. Erving goffman,s classic study stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Diagnoses the self in relation to particular others and to society and social norms in general. Goffman , focused on the individual self in a world that at once creates and oppresses it. In stigma goffman gathers together diverse materials as evidence for his account of the personal experience of stigma and the social practice of stigmatization. Autobiography as an important tool and resource for understanding and challenging the stigma associated with disability.
