# The Minority Body

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- Book: [The Minority Body](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-laban/the-minority-body) ([The Minority Body.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-laban/the-minority-body.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth LaBan](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-laban)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9882-241-7
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-11-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon—a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement. Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.