Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled whether disability is biomedical, social or both what causes disability and what could 'cure' it and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. 'The Rejected Body' argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summary The story of the author's own experience of chronic illness is woven through the text. The book also argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, feminist discussions of bodily life, and feminist criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine.

In The Rejected Body, she connects her own experience of illness to feminist theory and. This study applies a feminist philosophical perspective to theoretical and practical issues of physical disability, such as who should be identified as disabled, whether disability is biomedical, social or both, what causes disability and what could 'cure' it, and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Susan Wendell has lived with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 1985.

Chapter 6 Feminism, Disability and Transendence of the Body.

Chapter 5 The Cognitive and Social Authority of Medicine.

Chapter 4 The Flight from the Rejected Body.Chapter 2 The Social Construction of Disability.Chapter 1 Who is Disabled? Defining Disability.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.

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