Constructing Ableism

This essay builds upon research in disability studies through the extension of Garland-Thomson’s figure of the normate. I argue that biopower, through the disciplinary normalization of individual bodies and the biopolitics of populations, in the nineteenth-century United States produced the normate...

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Main Author: Stephanie Jenkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Genealogy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/3/66