MAY Vivan M., FERRI Beth A., 2005, « Fixated on Ability. Questionning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance », Prose Studies, voume 27, n°1-2, p. 120-140, https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350500068999.
Études de genre, Études sur le handicap, Autre – Anglais.
Résumé
This essay examines the ubiquitous use of ableist metaphors in contemporary feminist discourses and outlines two particular ways in which feminist theorists use disability to locate objects of remediation: first, the construction of disability in opposition to knowledge and second, the use of disability to highlight the subtle workings of power and privilege. In addition, we critique ableist notions ofmobility and movement, which are used to define and imagine liberation, resistance, and transformation. Because many rhetorical uses ofdisability reinscribe normative and exclusionary paradigms within otherwise libratory feminist theories, we assert the need for new metaphors and frames of reference to more adequately theorize multiplicity and to more fully realize social transformation. Transforming the ways we use language in order to more fully realize its paradoxes and playfulness will, we argue, yield more intersectional analyses and more fruitful political coalitions