At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy
dc.contributor | Wallis, Katherine Elaine | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-09-16T18:18:56Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-24T21:42:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-09-16T18:18:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-24T21:42:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-09-16T18:18:56Z | |
dc.date.submitted | January 2009 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied culture. By looking at the memoirs of three women who became disabled in adulthood: Nancy Mairs', Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, Simi Linton's My Body Politic, and finally Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick's critical article "Bodies Together: Touch, Ethics and Disability," I will ask the question: How can the disabled woman gain a new sense of embodiment and move beyond the able/disabled binary? To answer this question I will engage in a close reading of all three of the memoirs, providing examples that showcase the woman's new becoming which can be understood in light of Luce Irigaray's theories of `writing the body' and ethics. To this end, in writing their memoirs, these women successfully come into language through their bodies; thus, achieving their goal of constructing a fully realized notion of embodiment for the disabled woman. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1717 | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.publisher | English | en_US |
dc.title | At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy | en_US |
dc.type | M.A. | en_US |