Mary Forr Analysis

After watching the documentary “The Walk” with Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor that we watched in class together as a whole. It made me wonder about how Taylor put the idea of being handicapped as a political meaning, rather than just a social or medical way of living. In the documentary, the two women talk about the vast ways that handicapped people face today in the world. Throughout the semester we have learned how not just handicapped people like Taylor a person with a physical impairment are treated differently but also women, and people of ethnic minorities have been and are treated differently like her because of who or what they are.

Disabled women in society are doubly marginalized; they are neither understood or accepted by mainstream heterosexual society or by feminist theorists. Indeed, according to Susan Wendell, their embodied social reality has been ignored by philosophers and feminist theorists. The main focus of Susan Wendell’s article on “Towards a Feminist Theory of Disability”is to use the power of her own experience of going from able to disabled to argue that the voice of the disabled is missing from the standard theoretical arguments that guide medical intervention, philosophical understanding and feminist perspectives. She offers the reader the novel perspective that disabled people know more about their problems and potential solutions than able

Author of disability Nancy Mairs who’s a feminist and a cripple, has accomplished a lot in writing and teaching. Her remarkable personality shows in many of her essays especially in Disability which was first published in 1987 in the New York Times. In this essay, Nancy Mairs shows how disabled people are constantly excluded, especially from the media. By giving out facts and including her personal experiences, Mairs aims for making some changes regarding the relationship between the media and people with disabilities. Mairs thesis is shown implicitly in the first

Author of disability Nancy Mairs who’s a feminist and a cripple, has accomplished a lot in writing and teaching. Her remarkable personality shows in many of her essays especially in Disability which was first published in 1987 in the New York Times. In this essay, Nancy Mairs shows how disabled people are constantly excluded, especially from the media. By giving out facts and including her personal experiences, Mairs aims for making some changes regarding the relationship between the media and people with disabilities. Mairs thesis is shown implicitly in the first and last

To protect the parenting rights of disabled individuals, the systemic and legal barriers restricting them must be removed, as it is clear that many face undue discrimination in the child welfare system. These restrictions also include those witnessed by disabled people attempting to pursue assistive reproductive technology because they cannot or do not wish to bear biological children on their own. The same eugenic beliefs that led health care professionals to the widespread use of sterilization for women with disabilities now leads to diminished access to reproductive

Disability, by definition is “a physical or mental condition that limits a person 's movements, senses, or activities;” it is an impairment that restricts an individual 's ability to participate in "normal" routines in their everyday society. The term disability frightens able-bodied individuals because it challenges their own beliefs regarding normality and more importantly, their own vulnerability. As the years have progressed, however, disability has become an umbrella term that is used to categorize individuals who don’t abide to society’s norms; it is used to marginalize individuals as the weaker self. As a result, those who are disabled are thrown into institutions—ostracized from all of society. Susan Nussbaum’s novel “Good Kings, Bad Kings” focuses on an institution through the perspective of patients and workers, each with their own story to tell. While the novel implores and explores various themes throughout the character’s dialogue as prevalent throughout the novel, one striking theme that Nussbaum explores is the theme of the institution as a dumping grounds for children with disabilities. Both “A Pupil and a Patient” by Brad Byrom and “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History” by Douglas C. Baynton address the issue of disability injustice in institutional settings. All of these readings are similar in that they approach disability as an impairment made by society, and not necessarily the individual.

Mayerson (1992) said that the disability rights movement, over the last couple of decades, has made the injustices faced by people with disabilities visible to the American public and to politicians. This required reversing the centuries long history of “out of sight, out of mind” that the segregation of disabled people served to promote. The disability rights movement adopted many of the strategies of the civil rights movements before it.

Throughout America’s history and even less than 100 years ago, people with disabilities (which can include epilepsy, cerebral palsy, developmental delays and various physical and mental impairments) have been excluded from society by their families and in institutions because they were seen as useless and very dependent. Since it may take time for those with disabilities to understand and adjust in daily life, it can cause frustration and hatred by those who feel superior because they are not living with disabilities.

Prior to this civil rights issues the disabled minority were not treated right so reimaging disability helps society as whole integrate into one. Yet even after all the progressive images of disabled people and political empowerment. Discriminating attitudes are still thriving according to the article, “Our society emphatically denies vulnerability, contingency, and mortality. Modernity pressures us relentlessly toward standardizing bodies, a goal that is now largely accomplishable in the developed world through technological and medical interventions that materially rationalize our bodies under the banner of progress and improvement.” (Thomson 524) Very much how the girls in the orphanage would exclude Maggie for not looking or acting like everyone

The U.K. has huge problem of disability discrimination with having 6%”Gallie” of disabled women being sterilized, 7% ‘’Gaille” believe that any sort of mental illness is a disability, and 26% ‘’Gallie’’ say that facial deformities is considered a disability and two thirds of people purposely avoid others with a disability because it makes them uncomfortable. Many citizens’ in modern day society who are disabled are treated and feel like a burden from everyone who is involved with them, especially in the

Prior to reading this article I never truly understand the harsh conditions that the disabled had to live with prior to the disability movement. While reading this article I questioned how individuals abusing the disabled got away with doing so for so long. Yet, while further reading through the article I realized that this abuse may have resulted in lack of education on disabled individuals and possible fear of the disabled.

Individuals typically have a misinterpreted image of what an incapacity entails. Frequently, what comes to mind is an image of a person in a wheelchair. The truth is that disabilities may come in other forms that are psychological, mental, or physical. They can either be physically protuberant: for example amputation; to undistinguishable incapacities such as dyslexia. Various historical movements outline the operational definition of what it means to have a disability. These past actions include Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1793. Individuals with physical disabilities remain stigmatized and thus might not achieve complete social acceptance. For instance, people with incapacities are more likely to be undervalued and shunned by able-bodied folks (Nario‐Redmond, 2010). The people without a 3

Disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, and/or activities. Normal is conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected and abnormal is deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying. Throughout history, people with disabilities have been treated differently from those who conform to or fit societal norms. For many years’ people with disabilities have been treated different and/or unfair from the ‘norm’ or those considered to be ‘normal’. From the Greek and Roman times until recently, society look at people with a disability as less than human and should not have the rights of those who fit the norm. In the case of Ancient Greece, the disabled would be killed or abandoned in the woods. They would be kept as jesters for nobility in the Roman Empire court and they would experience acts of infanticide or the crime of killing a child within a year of birth during the time of the Renaissance.

According to Shakespeare, people with disabilities and nondisabled allies have worked together over the past three decades through the disability movement which he refers to as the ‘last liberation movement.’ This movement focused national attention onto the social oppression and cultural discourse that people with disabilities face every day in our country and the lack of regulations and laws in place that would prevent this kind of discrimination from happening.

“The offspring of the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away in some mysterious, unknown place as they should be.” This is one of the many things that were told to those with disabilities back in the day. It is horrible to hear of how badly they were treated just because they “stood in the way of a perfect world.”