Crítica feminista de la discapacidad: el monstruo como figura de la vulnerabilidad y exclusión
ISSN: 1989-7022
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Ética y medicina regenerativa
Issue: 7
Pages: 57-76
Type: Article
More publications in: Dilemata
Abstract
In this paper we examine the common strategies in method in disability studies and feminist critique, which frame the disability experience in the context of rights and exclusions. This social model of disability criticizes the biomedical model that describes disability as abnormality and pathology, as error in the established natural order of things. To deconstruct this naturalized subject, we analyze one of the historic representations of disability: the figure of the monster. Finally, we present disability as an opportunity to think about the essential vulnerability in every subject.
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