‘It is for the mother’. Feminists’ rhetoric of disability during the American eugenics period

LAMP Sharon, 2006, « 'It is for the mother'. Feminists' rhetoric of disability during the American eugenics period », Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 26, n° 4, https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/807/982.

Études de genre, Études sur le handicap – Anglais.

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Résumé

Since the inception of the current U.S. disability rights movement, there has been tension between mainstream American feminists and disability rights activists over disabled women’s right to control our bodies. While many nondisabled women now take such freedom for granted, disabled women continue to have decisions about our bodies determined by others who are part of the dominant culture. Why have mainstream feminists, who base their ideology upon the fallacy of a social construct of « inferiority, » been unable to generalize their analysis to include disabled women?