Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/101861
Author(s): Ema Loja
Maria Emília Costa
Bill Hughes
Isabel Menezes
Title: Disability, embodiment and ableism: stories of resistance
Issue Date: 2013
Abstract: Non-disabled responses to visible impairment embody either social invisibility or over-attentiveness. The subjective and inter-subjective experiences of impaired bodies and intersubjective encounters within society are important aspects of disablement and the construction of a disabled identity. Impairment is read by and influences the social structure of ableism. This paper attempts to understand how ableist discourses about impaired bodies have impacted on and been resisted by disabled people and how embodiment is related to identity. In pursuit of these aims, a qualitative study was conducted with seven people who have visible physical impairments. The results indicate that disabled embodiment is produced and experienced within an ableist context that mobilizes the charitable gaze and the medical model to signify impaired bodies at the expense of the recognition of disabled identity. In order to deconstruct ableism and to recognize and respect the value of the disabled identity, a politics of recognition is required.
Subject: Medicina clínica
Clinical medicine
Scientific areas: Ciências médicas e da saúde::Medicina clínica
Medical and Health sciences::Clinical medicine
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/101861
Document Type: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
Rights: restrictedAccess
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