The problematization of bodily experience in the social model of disability: the legacy of English second-wave disability feminists

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct debates raised within the social model of disability by English feminists in the 1990s, which have received little attention in the field of regional disability, and which are shaping a second wave of claims. Specifically, we will focus on the contributions of academics and activists Jenny Morris, Liz Crow and Lois Keith. These contributions draw attention to the importance of reintroducing the body and the deficit, the experiential, the private and the interactional into disabled people's struggles from a critical and embodied perspective. critical and embodied perspective. They also show that disability oppression is not homogeneous but intersectional with gender and other variables that singularise it (such as social class, the type of 'impairment' possessed, age, ethnicity, nationality, gender and other variables). Through this theoretical problematisation, we intend to make visible the very broad contributions that this debate can bring to the political struggles of people with disabilities in Latin America. the political struggles of people with disabilities in Latin America and the power of contemplating these reformulations of the social model in order to demand the rights associated with family life, health, care, sexuality and motherhood, among others. sexuality and motherhood, among others.