2013-10-03

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Article on Language

Sami Schalk at Disability Studies Quarterly: Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing

I provide a close reading of extended disability metaphors used in work by bell hooks and Tania Modleski, identifying the implications about disability and problems that occur in their overall arguments when the metaphors are read from a disability studies perspective. The article ends by offering recommendations for a feminist philosophy of language...

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