Feminism and disability

Abstract

Historically, disability was associated to defective, imperfect, etc. The society, far from assume the problem of disability, reduced it to the scope of the individual, refusing to assume the part of responsibility that it‘s entitled. Meanwhile, philosophers and scientists, in their search of the ―universality‖, before the problem of the disability, uttered the charge of marginal, coining the term ―normal‖ as a paradigmatic basis of a patriarchal pseudoscience that, in a parallel way, printed on woman the image of naturally incomplete and disabled, inferior to man in intelligence and morals, relegating her to care work. Some feminist approaches, recognizing parallelisms with the problem of disability, far from ignoring, assume it, being better off with it, by opting for liberation and inclusion in their broadest dimensions.