![]() ![]() It is the ideology of impairment rather than impairment itself that does any work to determine whether a person is disabled. While this model refers to a distinction between disability and impairment, it makes no presuppositions about which bodies function 'normally' and which do not. On our account, to be disabled is to be in a bodily or psychological state that is represented as an impairment in the prevailing ideology of one's society, and to be excluded from valuable activities on the basis of this representation. In response to these challenges, this paper defends a version of the social model of disability, which we call the Social Exclusion Model. Second, they maintain a problematic distinction between impairment and disability. First, because they understand disability in terms of oppressive social responses to bodily impairment, they cannot make sense of disability pride. In The Minority Body, Elizabeth Barnes rejects prevailing social constructionist accounts of disability for two reasons. ![]()
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