Hypatia articles from September 2001

Hypatia archives from September 2001

Impairment and disability: constructing an ethics of care that promotes human rights.
September 22, 2001... The social model of disability gives us the tools not only to challenge the discrimination and prejudice we face, but also to articulate the personal experience of impairment. Recognition of difference is therefore a key part of the assertion...

Persons with adult-onset head injury: a crucial resource for feminist philosophers.
September 22, 2001... The effects of head injury, even mild traumatic brain injury, are wide-ranging and profound. Persons with adult-onset head injury offer feminist philosophers important perspectives for philosophical methodology and philosophical research...

Cognitive ableism and disability studies: feminist reflections on the history of mental retardation.
September 22, 2001... This paper examines five groups of women that were instrumental in the emergence of the category of "feeblemindedness" in the United States. It analyzes the dynamics of oppression and power relations in the following five groups of women:...

Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions.
September 22, 2001... Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions. Edited by LESLIE PICKERING FRANCIS and ANITA SILVERS. New York: Routledge, 2000. On July 26, 1990, President George Bush signed into law the...

What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows.
September 22, 2001... What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. SUSAN GRIFFIN. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Last winter I fell on the ice and broke my foot. From a position of suddenly interrupted physical ability, I did not yet realize that...

Unhealthy disabled: treating chronic illnesses as disabilities.
September 22, 2001... Chronic illness is a major cause of disability, especially in women. Therefore, any adequate feminist understanding of disability must encompass chronic illnesses. I argue that there are important differences between healthy disabled and...

Sensing disability.
September 22, 2001... Disability theory privileges masculinist notions of presence, visibility, material "reality," and identity as "given." One effect of this has been the erasure of "sensibility," which, it is argued, inscribes, materializes, and performs the...

(Re)fusing the amputated body: an interactionist bridge for feminism and disability.
September 22, 2001... Disabled women's issues, experiences, and embodiments have been misunderstood, if not largely ignored, by feminist as well as mainstream disability theorists. The reason for this, I argue, is embedded in the use of materialist and...

The abused mind: feminist theory, psychiatric disability, and trauma.
September 22, 2001... I show how much psychiatric disability is informed by trauma, marginalization, sexist norms, social inequalities, concepts of irrationality and normalcy, oppositional mind-body dualism, and mainstream moral values. Drawing on feminist...

Introduction.
September 22, 2001... Looking back over the course of philosophical thinking during the twentieth century, we can see how feminist philosophy transformed the philosophical climate. Initially, philosophers who adopted a feminist stance pursued critical analyses of...

Impairment and Disability: Constructing an Ethics of Care That Promotes Human Rights.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION When I became disabled, 17 years ago, I had already experienced a decade of feminism. Throughout my 20s I had been able to articulate my personal experiences of oppression through the politics of the women's movement. However,...

Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities.
September 22, 2001... ********** The relationship between disability and illness is a problematic one. Many people are disabled by chronic and/or life-threatening illnesses, and many people with disabilities not caused by illness have chronic health problems as...

Sensing Disability.
September 22, 2001... ********** In times that are increasingly characterized by concerted attempts to globalize knowledge, the issue of difference is highlighted. In trans-Atlantic commerce, those of us who work in disability studies--or, indeed, in feminist...

(Re)fusing the Amputated Body: An Interactionist Bridge for Feminism and Disability.
September 22, 2001... ********** One woman with spina bifida described a preadolescent encounter with her gynecologist this way: "Will I be able to have satisfying sexual relations with a man?" "Don't worry, honey, your vagina will be tight enough...

The Abused Mind: Feminist Theory, Psychiatric Disability, and Trauma.
September 22, 2001... ********** Much psychiatric disability is closely linked to trauma. Many people who suffer from mental illnesses that force them to seek help are survivors of childhood abuse. "50-60 percent of psychiatric inpatients and 40-60 percent of...

Persons with Adult-Onset Head Injury: A Crucial Resource for Feminist Philosophers.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Head injury is widespread in the United States. (1) "Approximately every 15 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a head injury, resulting in an annual incidence of 200 injuries per 100,000" (Brain Injury Association...

Cognitive Ableism and Disability Studies: Feminist Reflections on the History of Mental Retardation.
September 22, 2001... ********** From the time idiocy became a focal point in the mid-nineteenth century through the eugenic fervor surrounding the "feebleminded" in the period leading up to World War I, both men and women were placed in the new schools and...

Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions. Edited by LESLIE PICKERING FRANCIS and ANITA SILVERS. New York: Routledge, 2000. On July 26, 1990, President George Bush signed into law the...

What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. SUSAN GRIFFIN. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Last winter I fell on the ice and broke my foot. From a position of suddenly interrupted physical ability, 1 did not yet realize that...