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Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) by Shelley Lynn Tremain is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability__ is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy, according to which disability is a natural disadvantage or personal misfortune, is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy. Against the understanding of disability that prevails in subfields of philosophy such as bioethics, cognitive science, ethics, and political philosophy, Tremain elaborates a new conception of disability as a historically specific and culturally relative apparatus of power. Although the book zeros in on the demographics of and biases embedded in academic philosophy, it will be invaluable to everyone who is concerned about the social, economic, institutional, and political subordination of disabled people.

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Shelley Lynn Tremain
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780472123476
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Philosophy, Sociology

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