Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities

Abstract

Chronic illness is a major cause of disability, especially in women. Therefore, any adequate feminist understanding of disability must encompass chronic illnesses. I argue that there are important differences between healthy disabled and unhealthy disabled people that are likely to affect such issues as treatment of impairment in disability and feminist politics, accommodation of disability in activism and employment, identification of persons as disabled, disability pride, and prevention and “cure” of disabilities.

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Susan Wendell (2001). Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities. Hypatia. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00751.x

@article{susan2001unhealthy,
  title  = {Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities},
  author = {Wendell, Susan},
  year   = {2001},
  journal = {Hypatia},
  doi    = {10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00751.x}
}

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