Dimensions of oppression: theorising the embodied subject

Journal/Book: Disabil Soc. 1999; 14: PO Box 25, Abingdon Ox14 3Ue, Oxfordshire, England. Carfax Publ Ltd. 611-626.

Abstract: This paper argues that a critical study of disability needs to examine how disability is subjectivity experienced, both at a conscious and an unconscious level, as well as having an appreciation of disabling social policies and structures. I begin by identifying the reasons why many social model theorists have not, in the past, seen the analysis of 'experience' as being relevant to our understanding of disability. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach (that is, one that recognises the importance of biological, social, relational and unconscious levels of analysis) in the study of two specific groups of people; those with learning difficulties and those with sickle cell anaemia. I focus particularly on the role of modem medicine within a disablist society in this attempt to demonstrate that bodily, emotional and social differences are mutually constitutive.

Note: Article Marks D, Univ Sheffield, Ctr Psychotherapeut Studies, 15 Claremont Crescent, Sheffield S10 2TA, S Yorkshire, ENGLAND

Keyword(s): DISABILITY

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